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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 MASAMI IKEDA and YUICHI KIMURA
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Appeal No. 2003-2052
Application No. 09/403,674
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ON BRIEF
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Before OWENS, PAWLIKOWSKI, and MOORE, Administrative Patent
Judges.
OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1, 2
and 4-11, which are all of the claims pending in the application.
THE INVENTION
The appellants claim a heat sink which, the appellants
state, may be adapted for use in dissipating heat from electronic
equipment and the like having a heat generating part which needs
to be cooled (specification, page 1, lines 3-5). Claim 1 is
illustrative:
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