The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte JIBIN YANG and SIAVASH ESHGHY ____________ Appeal No. 2001-0151 Application No. 08/850,981 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before McQUADE, CRAWFORD, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges. CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 to 6, 8 to 9, 19 and 20. Claims 28 to 30, 32 and 33 are allowed. Claims 10 to 12, 21, and 22 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claims, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all the limitations of the base claims and any intervening claims. Claims 7, 13 to 18, 23 to 27, 31 and 34 have been cancelled.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007