The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 43 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte MAYUMI TOMIKAWA, SEIICHI AIKAWA, and FUMIKO MATSUZAWA Appeal No. 1998-3335 Application 08/014,8671 HEARD: February 7, 2001 Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH, and BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judges. BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Application for patent filed February 8, 1993,1 entitled "Method And Apparatus For Extracting And Evaluating Mutually Similar Portions In One-Dimensional Sequences In Molecules And/Or Three-Dimensional Structures Of Molecules," which claims the foreign filing priority benefit of Japanese Application 4-21012, filed February 6, 1992, and Japanese Application 4-331703, filed December 11, 1992. - 1 -Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007