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is not binding precedent of the Board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. 10
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte CHIEH-MIN CHENG
And MIN-HONG FU
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Appeal No. 2002-0178
Application No. 09/385,909
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ON BRIEF
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Before OWENS, WALTZ and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent
Judges.
PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1-37, 41, and 43. A copy of each of these claims is set forth in
the attached appendix.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
unpatentability are:
Lundberg et al. (Lundberg) 4,387,174 June 7, 1983
Beach et al. (Beach) 5,719,204 Feb. 17, 1998
Satake et al. (Satake) 5,814,685 Sep. 29, 1998
Wong et al. (Wong ‘695) 5,762,695 June 9, 1998
Wong et al. (Wong ‘043) 5,837,043 Nov. 17, 1998
Puschak et al. (Puschak) 5,849,833 Dec. 15, 1998
Lin 5,851,274 Dec. 22, 1998
Villiger et al. (Villiger) 5,852,073 Dec. 22, 1998
Collins et al. (Collins) 5,891,950 Apr. 6, 1999
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