The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was
not written for publication and is not precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 15
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte SANH D. TANG and RAJENDRA NARASIMHAN
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Appeal No. 2004-0633
Application No. 10/011,198
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ON BRIEF
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Before FLEMING, JEFFREY T. SMITH 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 31-47 and 56-58. A copy of
each of the claims is set forth in the attached appendix.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of unpatentability:
Yu et al. (Yu) 4,744,056 May 10, 1988
Cronin 5,539,255 Jul. 23, 1996
Ito 5,773,365 Jun. 30, 1998
Liu et al. (Liu) 6,015,749 Jun. 18, 2000
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