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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DUANE KENNETH ZACHARIAS, YUNG HSIANG HUANG,
and
FRANK GERALD DRUECKE
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Appeal No. 2002-0741
Application No. 08/935,348
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HEARD: NOVEMBER 6, 2002
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Before COHEN, STAAB, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
STAAB, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1-20, all the claims currently pending in the
application.
According to appellants, the present application is a
continuation-in-part of 08/659,858 filed by appellants on June 7,
1996, now U.S. Patent 6,213,993 B1. In a decision rendered
January 31, 2000 in Appeal No. 1998-2834 in the parent ‘858
application, this merits panel affirmed-in-part rejections of the
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