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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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 MASAO NOGUCHI, AKIHIKO NAKASHIMA, SHIGERU SHIRAI,
MASAAKI KAWAGURI, and SATOSHI FURUTA
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Appeal No. 2004-0672
Application No. 09/894,704
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, GARRIS, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative
Patent Judges.
GARRIS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection of
claims 40, 41, 50 and 52-64. The only other claims remaining in
the application are claims 42-47, which stand withdrawn from
further consideration by the examiner as being directed to a
nonelected species, and claim 51, which stands objected to by the
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