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               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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15              


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                    _____________                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                    _____________                                     
               Ex parte AKIRO MIYACHI, MASAHI SETO, KAZUHIRO SHIMADA,                 
                          HIDEO TAMURA, and KENJI WATANABE                            
                                   _____________                                      
                                Appeal No. 2003-1193                                  
                             Application No. 09/570,123                               
                                   ______________                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                   _______________                                    

          Before PAK, LIEBERMAN, and KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          PAK, Administrative Patent Judge.                                           
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from             
          the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1 through 18, which are            
          all of the claims pending in the present application.                       
                               APPEALED SUBJECT MATTER                                
               Claim 1 is representative of the subject matter on appeal              
          and reads as follows:                                                       










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