Appeal No. 2000-0037
Application 08/627,631
The rejection of the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103, is
reversed. We have made a new ground of rejection under 37 C.F.R.
§ 1.196(b).
This decision contains a new ground of rejection pursuant to
37 C.F.R. § 1.196(b) (amended effective Dec. 1, 1997, by final
rule notice, 62 Fed. Reg. 53,131, 53,197 (Oct. 10, 1997), 1203
Off. Gaz. Pat. & Trademark Office 63, 122 (Oct. 21, 1997)). 37
C.F.R. § 1.196(b) provides that, "A new ground of rejection shall
not be considered final for purposes of judicial review."
37 C.F.R. § 1.196(b) also provides that the appellant,
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. . . .
No time period for taking any subsequent action in
connection with this appeal may be extended under 37 C.F.R.
§ 1.136(a).
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