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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte AKIRO MIYACHI, MASAHI SETO, KAZUHIRO SHIMADA,
HIDEO TAMURA, and KENJI WATANABE
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Appeal No. 2003-1193
Application No. 09/570,123
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ON BRIEF
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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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