Ex parte SANDERS 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          was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not             
          binding precedent of the Board.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. 20              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                    _____________                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                    Ex parte ALVIN J. SANDERS, WILLIAM E. DEEDS                       
                         and MARK E. RUPRIGHT                                         
                                    _____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 97-1119                                   
                               Application 08/285,2191                                
                                   ______________                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before CALVERT, ABRAMS and FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent                 
          Judges.                                                                     
          CALVERT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 16 to             
          22, all of the claims remaining in the application.                         
               The subject matter in issue concerns a method for using                
          solar radiation to stabilize an orbital space-based platform.               


               Application for patent filed August 3, 1994.  According to appellant,1                                                                     
          this application is a divisional of application 07/912,903, filed July 13,  
          1992.                                                                       
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