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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MASAO FUKUDA and KEIICHI NISHIMURA
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Appeal No. 1998-2206
Application No. 08/537,143
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ON BRIEF
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Before COHEN, BARRETT, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
COHEN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 7 and 16 through 22. These claims constitute all of
the claims remaining in the application.
Appellants' invention pertains to a former for forming an
elongated planar bag-making material into a tubular form and
to a packaging machine. A basic understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1
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