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                         THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                                                                         
                The opinion in support of the decision being entered today                                                                    
                (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and                                                                      
                (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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 DAVID BAKER                                                                    
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                                                        Appeal No. 97-1080                                                                    
                                                  Application 08/201,7331                                                                     
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                                                          ON BRIEF                                                                            
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                Before CALVERT, MEISTER, and PAK, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                               
                MEISTER, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                             
                                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                    
                         David Baker (the appellant) appeals from the final rejection                                                         
                of 1, 2, 6, 8-11 and 16.  Claims 3-5 and 12-15, the only other                                                                
                claims remaining in the application, stand allowed.  We reverse.                                                              
                         The appellant’s invention pertains to (1) a spacecraft, (2)                                                          
                a liquid pumping arrangement and (3) to an apparatus.                                                                         
                Independent claims 1, 8 and 16 are further illustrative of the                                                                

                         1Application for patent filed February 25, 1994.                                                                     

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