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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 14
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KASTURI LAL
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Appeal No. 1998-1281
Application 08/472,376
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, JOHN D. SMITH and SPIEGEL, Administrative
Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1,
4, 6-36 and 38-40, all the claims remaining in the present
application. A copy of illustrative claim 1 is appended to
this decision.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Small et al. (Small) 3,772,169 Nov. 13,
1973
Jokinen et al. (Jokinen) 4,783,274 Nov.
08, 1988
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