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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 SHIGERU YANO,
MINDIAW WANG and
TAROH ICHIKAWA
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Appeal No. 2006-1673
Application No. 09/913,725
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HEARD: September 14, 2005
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Before KIMLIN, KRATZ and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1, 2, and 5-7. Claims 8 and 9, which are the
only other claims that remain pending in this application, are
withdrawn from further consideration by the examiner as drawn to
a non-elected invention. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134.
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to a molded porous film that
is made using a composition including: (1) 45-75 weight percent
of a polyolefin-containing resin that comprises 70-98 weight
percent linear low density polyethylene and 2-30 weight percent
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