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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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–
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