The opinion in support of the decision being entered today not written for publication and is not precedent of the Board. Paper No. 23 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte GERD BAUER, KARL OSTERRIED, CHRISTOPH SCHMIDT, REINER VOGT, HELGE-BETTINA KNIESS, MICHAEL UHLIG, NORBERT SCHUL and GUNTHER BRENNER ________________ Appeal No. 1997-3169 Application 08/211,791 ________________ ON BRIEF ________________ Before KIMLIN, GARRIS and OWENS, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING Appellants request a rehearing from our decision mailed on October 12, 2000 wherein we affirmed the rejection of claims 29, 31-38, 45-54, 60, 61, 64, 65 and 67-69 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over the combination of Clark, Saegusa, Persello, Itoh, Noguchi, Clough, and appellants’ admitted prior art. -1-1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007