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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 HARUO ICHIKAWA and AKIRA WAKABAYASHI
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Appeal No. 2005-2210
Application No. 09/996,974
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ON BRIEF
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Before McQUADE, NASE, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
BAHR, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 4, 5
and 8-16, which are all of the claims pending in this application. Claims 1 and 4 were
amended to incorporate the limitations of dependent claims 3 and 7 and claims 3 and 7
were canceled subsequent to the final rejection in an amendment filed March 17, 2004.
We REVERSE.
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