Ex parte FARNHAM 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          publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18                
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                   Ex parte WILLIAM B. FARNHAM and MARIO J. NAPPA                     
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                                 Appeal No. 95-5067                                   
                               Application 08/064,5751                                
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before SOFOCLEOUS, OWENS, and WALTZ, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


          DECISION ON APPEAL                                                          
               This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the                       
          examiner’s final rejection of claims 13 through 15, 19, 21/19,              
          22/21/19, 23/22/21/19 and 24/22/21/19.  Claims 28 and 70 have               
          been indicated as allowable by the examiner (see the Advisory               


               1 Application for patent filed May 21, 1993.  According to appellants, the
          application is a continuation-in-part of Application 07/645,030, filed January 23, 1993,
          now Patent No. 5,243,025, issued September 7, 1993; which is a continuation-in-part of
          Application 07/243,396, filed September 12, 1988, now abandoned.            
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