The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte TOMOSHIGE UMEDA, SHUJI ISHIKAWA,TORU YOSHIHARA, SUSUMU FUJINAMI, KOJI MIMURA, KENICHI ONO, TSUTOMU MITSUHASHI ____________ Appeal No. 2005-2408 Application No. 09/783,548 ____________ HEARD: November 17, 2005 ____________ Before FRANKFORT, PATE, and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges. CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 6, 8, 9, and 11 to 15, which are all of the claims pending in this application. Claims 2, 7, and 10 have been withdrawn from consideration and claims 3 to 5 have been canceled.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007