The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was
not written for publication and is not precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 13
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte K. R. UDAYAKUMAR, HOWARD R. BERATAN,
and CHARLES M. HANSON
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Appeal No. 2002-1205
Application No. 09/422,380
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ON BRIEF
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Before OWENS, WALTZ and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judges.
PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-7, which are all of the claims
pending in this application. A copy of each of these claims is set
forth in the attached Appendix.
Claims 2-5 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as being indefinite.
Claims 1 and 2 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Yamanaka in view of Akashi.
Claim 6 stands objected to as being dependent upon a rejected
base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form
including all of the limitations of the base claim and any
intervening claim. Answer, page 2.
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