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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                         journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22                                               

                                    UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                 
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                                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                  
                                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                                                     
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                          Ex parte WATARU OUCHI, TAIZO MORITA and SHINYA TAGAWA                                                               
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                                                        Appeal No. 97-1621                                                                    
                                                    Application 08/073,5861                                                                   
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                                                                ON BRIEF                                                                      
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                Before STAAB, McQUADE and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                             
                McQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                         


                                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                    
                         This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1 through                                                          
                4 and 6 through 16, all of the claims pending in the application.                                                             
                         The invention relates to “a continuous cutter for severing                                                           
                pieces of equal length from a coiled elongate article, for                                                                    
                example an extruded aluminum tubular article used to prepare heat                                                             


                         1Application for patent filed June 8, 1993.                                                                          
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