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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte SATOSHI KADOHATA, JUN YAMAUCHI and YASUHIRO KASHIWAGI
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Appeal No. 2002-0964
Application 09/000,850
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ON BRIEF
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Before ABRAMS, PATE, and STAAB, Administrative Patent Judges.
PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 7
through 30. Claims 1 through 6 have been canceled. These are
all the claims in the application.
The claimed invention is directed to a method and apparatus
for picking up and placing electronic components on a circuit
board. The improvement of the claimed subject matter is that the
pickup nozzles used to place the components, when placed in the
nozzle holders, are replaced by a nozzle in an adjacent
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