The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 26 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte TAKEO YASUHO, MASAO IWATA, RYOICHI KATSURAGAWA, HAYAMI MATSUNAGA, YOSHIKAZU SUEHIRO, and YASUHIKO YOKOTA ____________ Appeal No. 1999-1454 Application No. 08/596,3431 ____________ HEARD: March 21, 2001 ____________ Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges. LEVY, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1-15, which are all of the claims pending in this application. 1Application filed under 35 U.S.C. § 371 based upon PCT/JP95/01326 filed on July 3, 1995, claiming foreign filing priority benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of Japanese Application No. 6/152177, filed July 4, 1994.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007