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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                           journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                                                                         
                                                                                                                 Paper No. 16                             

                                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                          
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                                              BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                          
                                                             AND INTERFERENCES                                                                            
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                             Ex parte JUERGEN BOECKER, MICHAEL BUTZ, ALFRED FREY,                                                                         
                                               PETRA HOFMEISTER and HANS SCHMIDT                                                                          
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                                                            Appeal No. 95-3460                                                                            
                                                    Application No. 08/042,3031                                                                           
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                                                                     ON BRIEF                                                                             
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                  Before RONALD H. SMITH, SOFOCLEOUS and HANLON, Administrative                                                                           
                  Patent Judges.                                                                                                                          
                  SOFOCLEOUS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                

                                                            DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                            
                           This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 to                                                                      
                  17.  Claim 18 stands withdrawn as being directed to a nonelected                                                                        
                  invention.                                                                                                                              
                           The subject matter on appeal is directed to a process for                                                                      
                  depositing metallic material onto a substrate.                                                                                          
                           The reference relied upon by the examiner is:                                                                                  

                           1Application for patent filed April 2, 1993.                                                                                   
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