The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte TATSUYA AOYAMA
and WATARU ITO
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Appeal No. 2000-2066
Application No. 08/829,471
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HEARD: April 25, 2002
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Before RUGGIERO, LALL, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of
claims 2-6, 8, 9, and 24. Claims 1 and 18 were canceled earlier in
the prosecution, and claims 10-17 have been indicated by the
Examiner to contain allowable subject matter subject to being
rewritten in independent form to include all the limitations of the
base and intervening claims. In response to Appellants’ Brief on
Appeal, the Examiner withdrew several rejections and indicated that
claims 2-7 and 19-30 are allowed. Accordingly, only the rejection
of claims 8 and 9 is before us on appeal.
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