Ex parte RAPPAPORT - 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                         journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19                         
                                    UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                 
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                                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                  
                                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                                                     
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                                                   Ex parte MARK RAPPAPORT                                                                    
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                                                        Appeal No. 97-0767                                                                    
                                                Application No. 08/383,9961                                                                   
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                                                                ON BRIEF                                                                      
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                Before MEISTER, ABRAMS, and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent                                                                   
                Judges.                                                                                                                       
                MEISTER, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                         


                                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                    
                         Mark Rappaport (the appellant) appeals from claims 1-3 and                                                           
                8-10.  Claims 4-7, the only other claims present in the                                                                       
                application, have been indicated as being allowable subject to                                                                
                the requirement that they be rewritten to include all the subject                                                             
                matter of the claims from which they depend.  We affirm.                                                                      




                         1Application for patent filed February 6, 1995.                                                                      





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