The opinion in support of the decision being
entered today was not written for publication
in a law journal and is not binding precedent
of the Board.
Paper No. 23
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte SEIZI NAKADA, SENJI SUZUKI,
SHINJIRO KAWAGUCHI and HISAYOSHI OSUMI
Appeal No. 1999-0384
Application No. 08/597,837
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, WARREN 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-
11, all the claims in the present application. Claim 1 is
illustrative:
1. A process for producing a decorated article, comprising
the steps of:
(a) preparing a base material, a surface of which is composed
of an overlay, the overlay having a wood material layer,
a first side of the wood material layer constituting a
surface of the overlay;
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