The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication and is not binding
precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MASAAKI YAMANAKA,
HIROSHI KOYAMA and YASUHIRO UEDA
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Appeal No. 2005-2639
Application 08/855,905
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, GARRIS and WARREN, Administrative Patent Judges.
WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.
On Request For Rehearing
This is a request for rehearing under 37 CFR § 41.52 (2005). Requests for rehearing
must comply with 37 CFR § 41.52(a)(1) (2005) which specifies that “[t]he request for rehearing
must state with particularity the points believed to have been misapprehended or overlooked by
the Board.” See also Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) § 1214.03 (8th ed., Rev. 3,
August 2005).
Appellants request rehearing of our decision entered December 16, 2005, affirming the
examiner’s rejection of appealed claims 1 and 28 through 49 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Takashi in view of Ohba and Ueda (request, page 1). Appellants contend
(1) that we failed to consider a three-layered synthetic paper specifically encompassed by
appealed claim 47 and thus, improperly dismissed the experiments performed in the Yamanaka
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