Appeal No. 2000-0330 Page 14
Application No. 08/684,871
purposes of judicial review." It also includes the following
provisions.
[T]he appellant, withing 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 for taking any action in connected with this
appeal may be extended under 37 C.F.R. § 1.136(a).
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