The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte HIROSHI NISHIYAMA, YOSHIKAZU SAITO, AKIYOSHI TOMITA, KATSUTOSHI NAKAJIMA, AKIRA NORIZUKI and KAZUYOSHI UNNO ____________ Appeal No. 2002-2151 Application No. 09/342,234 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ 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 aPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007