The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was
not written for publication and is not precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 46
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte YASUHIRO TANIMURA, MASAKI KUZUMOTO, JUNJI HIROTSUJI,
SHIGEKI NAKAYAMA, OSAMU MATSUOKA and MASAO NOZAKI
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Appeal No. 2001-2650
Application No. 08/808,639
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ON BRIEF
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Before LIEBERMAN, TIMM and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent
Judges.
PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 2,
26, 27, and 30-35. Claims 1, 3-7, 21-25, 28, and 29 have been
cancelled. Claims 8-20 have been withdrawn from consideration.
A copy of the claims on appeal is set forth in the attached
appendix.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
unpatentability are:
Azuma et al. 4,462,965 Jul. 31, 1984
Shimizu et al. (Shimizu) 5,520,887 May 28, 1996
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