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opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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 _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte KAZUHIKO SAKURAI and KAZUO YOKOYAMA _____________ Appeal No. 1998-3066 Application No. 08/444,517 ______________ HEARD: February 7, 2001 _______________ 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: 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007