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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte BRETT GUNNINK, JAYANTH KANUNAR and ZHUOXIONG LIANG
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Appeal No. 1998-1217
Application No. 08/405,599
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ON BRIEF
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Before GARRIS, PAK, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative
Patent Judges.
GARRIS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection
of claims 1-23 which are all of the claims remaining in the
application.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a process
for making compacts from coal particles and to a coal compact
comprising compacted coal particles. This appealed subject
matter is adequately illustrated by independent claim 1 which
reads as follows:
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