The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 23 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte SEIICHI UCHIDA, TOSHINOBU KURAZONO, SEIGO ISHIBASHI and ETSURO MATSUDA __________ Appeal No. 1998-0305 Application 08/385,110 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before WARREN, OWENS and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the examiner’s refusal to allow claims 5-9 as amended after final rejection. These are all of the claims remaining in the application. THE INVENTION The appellants’ claimed invention is directed toward a tower for removing residual monomers from a slurry of 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007