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             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                      
                                    ____________                                    
                        BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                    ____________                                    

                   Ex parte SANH D. TANG and RAJENDRA NARASIMHAN                    
                                                                                   
                                    ____________                                    
                                Appeal No. 2004-0633                                
                             Application No. 10/011,198                             
                                    ____________                                    
                                      ON BRIEF                                      
                                    ____________                                    

         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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