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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 34
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte TERRY B. STROM, XIN XIAO ZHENG and ALAN STEELE
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Appeal No. 2001-08931
Application No. 08/968,905
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ON BRIEF2
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Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, SCHEINER and ADAMS, Administrative Patent
Judges.
ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 16, 18 and 34-37, which are all the claims pending in the
application.
1 We note that this appeal is related to Appeal No. 2000-0839 (Application No.
08/355,502) accordingly these two appeals were considered together.
2 In accordance with 37 CFR 1.194(c), the Board decided that an oral hearing was
not necessary in this appeal. Therefore, appellants’ request for oral hearing is
moot.
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