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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte YUICHIRO MURAYAMA, MASAKI SATAKE,
HIROSHI HASHIMOTO and TSUTOMU OKITA
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Appeal No. 1999-0097
Application No. 08/532,976
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HEARD: May 23, 2001
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Before KIMLIN, GARRIS and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative
Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1,
2, 7, 8, 13 and 14. Claims 4, 6, 11, 12 and 17-20, the other
claims remaining in the present application, have been
objected to by the examiner as being based upon a rejected
base claim. Claim 1 is illustrative:
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