The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 25 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte SHOJI KUWABARA Appeal No. 2000-1958 Application No. 08/854,620 ON BRIEF Before KRASS, LALL and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 2, 4 and 5, all of the pending claims. The invention is directed to qualitative analysis for identifying elements in a sample by exciting the sample and spectroscopically analyzing light emitted from the sample. In the conventional analysis systems, wavelengths of various -1–Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007