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                    THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                      
               This opinion (1) was not written for publication and                   
               (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                             
                                                               Paper No. 35           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                               Ex parte OLE K. NILSSEN                                
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                                 Appeal No. 96-3090                                   
                               Application 08/287,409                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before CALVERT, THOMAS, and TORCZON, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          TORCZON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       
                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final                 
          rejection of claims 44-65,  all of the pending claims.1                                                 
          (Paper 29 at 1.)  We affirm in part.                                        
               Appellant filed the subject application on 8 August 1994.              
          Appellant claims the benefit of United States patent                        
          application number 06/717,441, filed 28 March 1985, now                     
          abandoned.  (Paper 25 at 1.)                                                

               1    Canceled claims 1-43 were the subject of an earlier               
          appeal to the Board.  (Papers 17, 23 and 25.)                               





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