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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 HUI-JUNG WU and JAMES S. DRAGE
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Appeal No. 2005-2522
Application No. 09/841,453
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ON BRIEF
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Before PAK, KRATZ and MOORE, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING
This is in response to appellants’ request for rehearing of
our May 31, 2006 decision, which request was filed on June 28,
2006. In that decision, we affirmed the examiner’s decision to
reject claims 2-16, 18-21 and 31-34 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Jin in view of Grainger and Kotelnikov;
to reject claims 22-29 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Jin in view of Grainger and Kotelnikov; to
reject claim 17 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
over Jin in view of Grainger, Kotelnikov and Burns; and to reject
claims 2-29 and 31-34 under the judicially created doctrine of
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