The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte TOMOYUKI TERADA __________ Appeal No. 1998-2740 Application 08/438,492 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before THOMAS, JERRY SMITH and LALL, Administrative Patent Judges. JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-7, which constitute all the claims in the application. An amendment after final rejection was filed on December 1, 1997 and was entered by the examiner. The disclosed invention pertains to a robot movement programming method and apparatus for creating a program for moving a robot along a movement path using an information 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007