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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 53
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte TETSURO MOTOYAMA
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Appeal No. 1999-2767
Application No. 08/738,461
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Before BARRETT, LEVY, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges.
BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judge.
ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING
Appellant has filed a Request for Rehearing under 37 CFR § 1.197(b) (Paper No.
52), requesting rehearing of our decision entered September 5, 2002, wherein we
sustained the final rejection of claims 88-139 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
In our decision we determined that the metes and bounds of the claim recitation
“electronic mail message” was a material inquiry in proper interpretation of the
representative claims. Appellant submitted that the term was well known in the art, and
that formal definition could be found in technical dictionaries.
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