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is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte WALTER H. ISAAC, JAMES S. HONAN
and EDGAR E. RIECKE
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Appeal No. 1998-2305
Application No. 08/670,466
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, DELMENDO, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judges.
JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING
This is in response to Appellants’ letter, filed May 31, 2002, responding to our
decision, mailed March 22, 2002.1 In our previous decision, we affirmed the rejection of
claims 1, 3 and 5 to 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over Takeuchi and reversed the rejection of
1 We will treat Appellants’ letter as a Requests for reconsideration under 37 CFR § 1.197(b). In
addition to the letter, Appellants presented two declarations under 35 U.S.C. § 1.132.
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