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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KIYOSHI NISHIO, MAKOTO FUJII,
YUTAKA OKAMOTO and TAKUYA ISHIDA
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Appeal No. 2000-1917
Application 09/076,863
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HEARD: January 24, 2001
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Before STAAB, MCQUADE, and LAZARUS, Administrative Patent
Judges.
MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Kiyoshi Nishio et al. originally took this appeal from
the final rejection of claims 1 and 6 through 10. The
appellants have since amended claim 1 and canceled claim 9.
Thus, the appeal now involves claims 1, 6 through 8 and 10,
the only claims currently pending in the application.
THE INVENTION
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