The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 50 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte FUSEN E.CHEN, FU-TAI LIOU, TIMOTHY E. TURNER, CHE-CHIA WEI, YIH-SHUNG LIN, and GIRISH A. DIXIT ____________ Appeal No. 1998-2671 Application No. 08/480,543 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before THOMAS, HAIRSTON, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 3, 9-13, and 18, all of the claims pending in the present application. Claims 14-17 have been withdrawn from consideration as being drawn to a non-elected invention. Claims 1, 2 and 4-8 have been canceled.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007