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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 45
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte YOSHIKI SHIROCHI
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Appeal No. 1999-1657
Application No. 08/877,781
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HEARD: March 15, 2001
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Before BARRETT, FLEMING and LALL, Administrative Patent Judges
LALL, 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 to 3, 5, 7 to 9, 1
11, and 13 to 17.
1The last amendment after the final rejection was filed as paper no. 32
and was entered into the record, paper no. 34. Claim 18 has been cancelled as
per this amendment. Claims 4, 6, 10 and 12 have been indicated as containing
allowable matter as per the examiner’s answer, page 2. Also, the examiner
indicated the withdrawal of the rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 112, 2 paragraph nd
on page 2 of the answer, thereby leaving only the rejection of the above cited
claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103 for the purposes of appeal.
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