The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 31 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte MAKOTO KAWAMURA, YOSHIYUKI AKIYAMA, YASUSHI FUJINAMI, JUN YONEMITSU, and TOMIHIRO NAKAGAWA Appeal No. 1999-2240 Application 08/909,3491 ON BRIEF Before BARRETT, DIXON, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges. BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Application for patent filed August 11, 1997, entitled1 "Data Recording Medium and Record/Playback Apparatus Using the Data Recording Medium," which is a continuation of Application 08/562,428, filed November 24, 1995, now abandoned, which claims the foreign filing priority benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of Japanese Application 6-321602, filed November 30, 1994. - 1 -Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007