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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KENJI KUNIHARA, YOICHI SHINDO,
HIROMI MOJIKAWA, TADASHI UMEGAKI, and
SATORU NAGANO
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Appeal No. 1998-2969
Application No. 08/317,818
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, FLEMING, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.
DIXON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 3-5,
and 7. Claims 8 and 9 have been indicated as allowable by the examiner and claim 2
has been canceled. Claim 6 has unknown status.1
We REVERSE.
1 We note that the examiner indicated in the final rejection that claim 6 was rejected on the cover
sheet, but this claim was not addressed in the final rejection or the answer. Therefore, we do not address
it in our decision.
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