Ex parte YAMAMOTO et al. - Page 1




                                       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                                                    publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29                       
                                           UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                                
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                                                  BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                                
                                                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                                                                 
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                                  Ex parte TAKATATSU YAMAMOTO, SHIGEHIKO KOBAYASHI, and                                                                             
                                                                     TOMOHIRO IKEDA                                                                                 
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                                                                   Appeal No. 1999-0426                                                                             
                                                                Application No. 08/247,8941                                                                         
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                                                                            ON BRIEF                                                                                
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                   Before KRASS, LALL, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                                     
                   DIXON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                              



                                                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                                

                            This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1-4,                                                         
                   6, 8-10 and 16, which are all of the claims pending in this application.                                                                         


                            We REVERSE.                                                                                                                             





                            1  Appellants’ representative was notified by telephone of the panel’s intent to reverse the                                            
                   examiner’s rejection.  Therefore, the hearing scheduled for March 8, 2001 was canceled.                                                          





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