        NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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       IN RE HISATO SHINOHARA AND AKIRA
                    SUGAWARA
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                       2011-1226
                 (Serial No. 08/169,127)
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    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
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                      JUDGMENT
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    ERIC J. ROBINSON, Robinson Intellectual Property Law
Offices, P.C., of Fairfax, Virginia, for appellant. With him
on the brief was SEAN C. FLOOD.

    NATHAN K. KELLEY, Associated Solicitor, Office of the
Solicitor, United States Patent and Trademark Office, of
Alexandria, Virginia.     With him on the brief were
RAYMOND T. CHEN, Solicitor, and ROBERT J. MCMANUS,
Associate Solicitor.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

    PER CURIAM (RADER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and DYK,
Circuit Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



December 8, 2011               /s/ Jan Horbaly
    Date                           Jan Horbaly
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