The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 45 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte TAKATOSHI ISHIKAWA, KAZUAKI YOSHIDA, HIROSHI FUJIMOTO, JUNICHI YAMANOUCHI and TOMOKAZU YASUDA ________________ Appeal No. 1998-1276 Application No.08/232,339 ________________ HEARD: March 6, 2001 ________________ Before KIMLIN, KRATZ and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges. KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 6- 10, 12, 13 and 15-19, all the claims remaining in the present application. A copy of illustrative claim 17 is appended to this decision: -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007