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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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. 25
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ATSUO WATANABE, KENJIRO NAKAYAMA, and
TAKAHISA HIKIDA
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Appeal No. 1997-1888
Application No. 08/221,467
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ON BRIEF
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Before FRANKFORT, NASE, and LAZARUS, Administrative Patent
Judges.
LAZARUS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 2-12, 14, 16, 21, 23-25, 39, 40 and 42-52,
which are all of the claims pending in this application.1
1 Claims 1, 13, 15, 19, 20, and 22 were canceled via applicants' amendment
filed July 29, 1993 (Paper No. 6) and claims 17, 18 and 41 were canceled via
applicants' amendment filed June 3, 1994 (Paper No. 11½). Claims 26-38 have
been canceled subsequent to the final rejection. See the paper filed November
21, 1995. While the examiner has approved entry of the amendment after final
rejection in the margin thereof, we note that this amendment has not been
clerically entered.
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