The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 12 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte JIONG-PING LU and CHANGMING JIN __________ Appeal No. 2004-0681 Application No. 09/899,743 __________ ON BRIEF __________ Before GARRIS, MOORE, and POTEATE, Administrative Patent Judges. GARRIS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on an appeal which involves claims 6 and 7. In this regard, we observe that the appellants have not pursued an appeal of the examiner’s final rejection of claims 2 and 3 (e.g., see page 2 of the brief) and that claims 4 and 5 have been allowed by the examiner (e.g., see page 3 of the final 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007