The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 YOSHIHIRO SETO and TOSHIMI FURUYA ________________ Appeal No. 1998-2213 Application 08/655,863 ________________ ON BRIEF ________________ Before WARREN, OWENS and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 6-17. Subsequent to the final rejection, claims 10 and 13 were indicated allowable by the examiner (advisory action mailed June 30, 1997 (paper no. 9); examiner’s answer, page 9). Claims 1-5, which are the only other claims in the application, have been canceled. -1-1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007