Ex parte WINTER et al. - Page 9




              Appeal No. 98-3017                                                                           9                
              Application No. 08/437,986                                                                                    

              FROM THE DATE OF THE DECISION, must exercise one of the following two options                                 

              with respect to the new ground of rejection to avoid termination of proceedings                               

              (§ 1.197(c)) as to the rejected claims:                                                                       

                             (1) Submit an appropriate amendment of the claims so rejected or a                             
                     showing of facts relating to the claims so rejected, or both, and have the                             
                     matter reconsidered by the examiner, in which event the application will be                            
                     remanded to the examiner. . . .                                                                        

                             (2) Request that the application be reheard under § 1.197(b) by                                
                     the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences upon the same record. . . .                              








              No time period for taking any subsequent action in connection with this appeal                                

              may be extended under 37 CFR § 1.136 (a).                                                                     


                                          REVERSED, 37 CFR § 1.196(b)                                                       




              CHUNG K. PAK                                  )                                                               
                                    Administrative Patent Judge                 )                                           
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