The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 LIHUA LI, WEN H. ZHU, TZU-FANG HUANG,
LI QUN XIA and ELLIE YIEH
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Appeal No. 2005-2442
Application No. 10/121,284
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, OWENS, and FRANKLIN, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FRANKLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
REQUEST FOR REHEARING1
Appellants have submitted a Request for Rehearing2 of our
Decision mailed November 27, 2006 (hereinafter referred to as
"Request”).
On page 2 of the Request, appellants state that the Board’s
statement that the examiner's interpretation of an unclear
sentence in a reference is a reasonable interpretation is not
1 We note that the rule governing such a request is now located
at 37 CFR § 41.52 (effective September 13, 2004; 69 Fed. Reg.
49960 (August 12, 2004); 1286 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 21
(September 7, 2004)), and is referred to as a Request for
Rehearing.
2 Appellants refer to the filing as a Request for
Reconsideration.
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