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               The opinion in support of the decision being                           
               entered today was not written for publication                          
               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                             
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                                                            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.                              
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