Appeal No. 2000-1651
Application No. 08/871,923
reversed. Claims 20, 31 and 32 are rejected pursuant to 37
CFR
§ 1.196(b).
This decision contains new grounds of rejection pursuant
to 37 CFR § 1.196(b) (amended effective Dec. 1, 1997, by final
rule notice, 62 Fed. Reg. 53,131, 53,197 (Oct. 10, 1997), 1203
Off. Gaz. Pat. and Trademark Office 63, 122 (Oct. 21, 1997)).
37 CFR § 1.196(b) provides that "[a] new ground of rejection
shall not be considered final for purposes of judicial
review."
37 CFR § 1.196(b) also provides that the appellant,
WITHIN TWO MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THE DECISION, must exercise
one of the following two options with respect to the new
grounds of rejection to avoid termination of proceedings (37
CFR § 1.197(c)) as to the rejected claims:
(1) Submit an appropriate amendment of the
claims so rejected or a showing of facts relating to
the claims so rejected, or both, and have the matter
reconsidered by the examiner, in which event the
application will be remanded to the examiner. . . .
(2) Request that the application be reheard
under
§ 1.197(b) by the Board of Patent Appeals and
Interferences upon the same record. . . .
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