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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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 KAZUYA NAKADA and YOSHINORI TAKAHASHI
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Appeal No. 2004-0375
Application 09/841,926
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HEARD: APRIL 15, 2004
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Before KIMLIN, OWENS and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This appeal is from a nonfinal rejection of claims 1 and 2,
which are all of the claims in the application.1
THE INVENTION
The appellants claim a semiconductive roller which, the
appellants state, is useful as a charging roller, developing
1 In an appeal in which claims have been at least twice
rejected, the board has jurisdiction as discussed in Ex parte
Lemoine, 46 USPQ2d 1432 (Bd. Pat. App. & Int. 1995).
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