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is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte RUBING CAI
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Appeal No. 2004-1062
Application No. 08/448,019
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, KRATZ and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-4,
7-11 and 14. Claim 5 has been allowed by the examiner.
A copy of illustrative claim 1 is appended to this decision.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Druetzler 4,619,955 Oct. 28, 1986
Aoki et al. (Aoki) 5,087,661 Feb. 11, 1992
Zwiener et al. (Zwiener) 5,126,170 Jun. 30, 1992
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