No. 04-1244, Serial No. 08/395,638. Decided: March 31, 2005. Before BRYSON, GAJARSA, and PROST, Circuit Judges. BRYSON, Circuit Judge. Setsuo Fujimura, Masato Sagawa, Yukata Matsuura, Hitoshi Yamamoto, and Norio Togawa (collectively, the "appellants") seek review of a decision from the United States Patent and Trademark Office's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, Appeal No. 2003-2030. The Board upheld a patent examiner's rejection on the basis of obviousness-type double patenting. We affirm
Patent Appeal No. 7038. January 23, 1964. George H. Spencer, Harvey Kaye, Spencer Kaye, Washington, D.C., for appellant. Clarence W. Moore, Washington, D.C. (George C. Roeming, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for Commissioner of Patents. Before WORLEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, SMITH, and ALMOND, Judges. SMITH, Judge. The issue presented by this appeal is whether the Patent Office Board of Appeals was correct in holding that claims 8, 9, 14-18 and 20-23 of appellant's application were directed to a structure
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