Ex parte POTTER et al. - Page 1




                                  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                         journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                                                               
                                                                                                         Paper No. 43                         
                                    UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                 
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                                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                  
                                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                                                     
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                                Ex parte DANIEL R. POTTER and BRUCE J. KILGORE                                                                
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                                                        Appeal No. 95-3510                                                                    
                                                Application No. 08/032,4051                                                                   
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                                                     HEARD: August 5, 1997                                                                    
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                Before MCCANDLISH, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, and                                                                    
                LYDDANE and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                               
                NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                            


                                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                    
                         This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                                                               
                rejection of claims 1 through 29, 31 through 45 and 47 through                                                                
                51, which are all of the claims pending in this application.                                                                  



                         1Application for patent filed March 12, 1993.  According to                                                          
                the appellants, the application is a continuation of Application                                                              
                No. 07/879,725, filed May 6, 1992, which was a continuation of                                                                
                Application No. 07/702,129, filed May 16, 1991, which was a                                                                   
                continuation of Application No. 07/480,586, filed February 15,                                                                
                1990, which was a continuation-in-part of Application No.                                                                     
                07/324,705, filed March 17, 1989, and a continuation-in-part of                                                               
                Application No. 07/416,262, filed October 3, 1989.                                                                            





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