The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 14 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte CHUN YAN, YAN YE and DIANA XIAOBING MA __________ Appeal No. 2002-1642 Application 09/300,563 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before FRANKFORT, MCQUADE, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges. MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Chun Yan et al. appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 6, 10 and 11. Claims 7 through 9, 12 and 14, the only other claims pending in the application, stand allowed.1 1 Claim 12, which depends from claim 11, should stand objected to as depending from a rejected base claim. 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007