The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte TAI-SHENG CHOU, NAI Y. CHEN, GRANT G. KARSNER, CLINTON R. KENNEDY, RENE B. LAPIERRE, MELCON G. MELCONIAN, RICHARD J. QUANN, and STEPHEN S. WONG __________ Appeal No. 1998-0556 Application No. 08/367,418 __________ ON BRIEF __________ Before GARRIS, WARREN, and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges. GARRIS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection of claims 11 through 20 which are all of the claims remaining in the application. On page 1 of the brief, the appellants state that “[t]he appeal is withdrawn with respect to claims 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007