The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 17
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte FUMIO ISHIHARA, MUTSUMI NARUSE, TAKANORI KOHNO
TETSUO SAKAMOTO, KOUICHI KOBAYASHI, TERUYUKI TONGU
NORIFUMI NAKAGAWA, TOMIO KUROSU
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Appeal No. 2000-0757
Application No. 09/021,393
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 9, 33 and 35-38.
Claims 1-8 and 10-15 have been canceled and claims 16-32 and 34 have been withdrawn
from consideration due to a restriction requirement.
The invention pertains to controlling exposure in a camera. More particularly,
although two-area photo-sensors for divided brightness measurement are known, the
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