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is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte MAKOTO SONE, SAIKI HASEGAWA,
SATORU YAMADA and AKIHIRO YANO
Appeal No. 1999-2506
Application No. 08/545,254
HEARD: January 24, 2002
Before, WARREN, OWENS and LIEBERMAN, Administrative Patent Judges.
LIEBERMAN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the rejection of the examiner refusing
to allow claims 7, 9, 10, 13, 15 through 20, 22 through 24, 26 through 28, 31through
38, 40 and 41, as amended subsequent to the final rejection, which are all the claims
pending in this application. 1
1Claims 21and 39 were canceled by an amendment received January 20, 1998 and entered by the
examiner. Claim 32 remains pending.
1
Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007