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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte YUKIO TANIGAWA and TADASHIGE HATA
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Appeal No. 1999-1878
Application No. 08/799,411
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HEARD: January 08, 2002
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Before, WARREN, KRATZ, and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1-4, 6, 7, 9 and 11-20, which are all of
the claims that remain pending in this application.1
1This appeal only involves claims 1-4, 6, 7, 9 and 11-20
since the record reflects that an amendment after final
rejection (Paper No. 11) cancelling finally rejected claims 8
and 10 was approved by the examiner as “O K to Enter” by so
marking page 1 thereof and has been physically entered. This
is consistent with appellants’ statement (brief,page 1) that
“claims 1-4, 6, 7, 9 and 11-20 are being appealed and with the
examiner’s statement of the rejection (answer, item No. 10).
The statement in the answer (item No. 4) agreeing with
appellants’ statement that “[n]o after-final amendments were
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