The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 31
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte KOJI SHIMODA, HARUHIKO AIKAWA,
MOTOHIDE YOSHIDA and TAKASHI HASEGAWA
Appeal No. 2002-0417
Application No. 08/973,213
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, WALTZ and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-7.
Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. A method of making an optical fiber product, said method
comprising:
winding a coated optical fiber around a first winding
member, said coated optical fiber comprising a glass fiber and a
primary coating layer made of a UV-cured resin disposed around an
outer periphery of said glass fiber, said glass fiber comprising
a core having a predetermined refractive index and a cladding
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