Ex Parte SAKURAI et al - Page 1




                              The opinion in support of the decision being entered today                                   
                                (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and                                   
                                       (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                                          
                                                                                      Paper No. 20                         
                               UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                   
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                                    BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                     
                                                AND INTERFERENCES                                                          
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                              Ex parte KAZUHIKO SAKURAI and KAZUO YOKOYAMA                                                 
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                                                 Appeal No. 1998-3066                                                      
                                               Application No. 08/444,517                                                  
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                                               HEARD: February 7, 2001                                                     
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              Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and BARRETT,  Administrative Patent Judges.                                        
              KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                          

                                                DECISION ON APPEAL                                                         

                     This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-9, all of the                       
              pending claims.                                                                                              
                     The invention is directed to a printing system for printing requests from plural                      
              terminals.                                                                                                   




                     Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:                                                         

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