Appeal No. 1999-1455
Application 08/753,556
37 CFR § 1.196(b) also provides that the appellants, WITHIN TWO MONTHS
FROM THE DATE OF THE DECISION, must exercise one of the following two options with
respect to the new ground of rejection to avoid termination of proceedings (§ 1.197(c)) as
to the rejected claims:
(1) Submit an appropriate amendment of the claims so rejected or a
showing of facts relating to the claims so rejected, or both, and have the
matter reconsidered by the examiner, in which event the application will be
remanded to the examiner. . . .
(2) Request that the application be reheard under § 1.197(b) by the
Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences upon the same record. . . .
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