Ex Parte MIYA et al - Page 1




                            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                                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 26             
                               UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                             
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                                   BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                
                                               AND INTERFERENCES                                                     
                                                    ____________                                                     
                            Ex parte YUKIO MIYA, OSAMU SUGIYAMA, RYOTA KOIKE,                                        
                          TASKASHI TOIDA, SOSAKU KIMURA and KUNIHIKO KOKUBO                                          
                                                    ____________                                                     
                                                Appeal No. 2002-0912                                                 
                                              Application No. 08/913,187                                             
                                                    ____________                                                     
                                                      ON BRIEF                                                       
                                                    ____________                                                     
             Before COHEN, ABRAMS, and STAAB, Administrative Patent Judges.                                          
             ABRAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                    



                                               DECISION ON APPEAL                                                    
                    This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 and                 
             3-9.  Claims 10-33 have been withdrawn from consideration as being directed to a non-                   
             elected invention, and claim 2 has been canceled.                                                       


                    We AFFIRM.                                                                                       










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