Ex Parte NISHIYAMA et al - Page 1



               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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16          
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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            Ex parte HIROSHI NISHIYAMA, YOSHIKAZU SAITO, AKIYOSHI TOMITA,            
               KATSUTOSHI NAKAJIMA, AKIRA NORIZUKI and KAZUYOSHI UNNO                
                                    ____________                                     
                                Appeal No. 2002-2151                                 
                             Application No. 09/342,234                              
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                                      ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before ABRAMS, FRANKFORT, and STAAB, Administrative Patent                 
          Judges.                                                                    
          FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                    


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                  

          This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                     
          rejection of claims 1 through 10, all of the claims pending in             
          this application.                                                          

          Appellants' invention relates to an improvement for a                      
          vehicle network system and a method of controlling states of               
          vehicle apparatuses in which plural slave apparatuses and a                





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