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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                    law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20                                       

                                            UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                                      
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                                                    BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                                     
                                                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                                                                       
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                                                                Ex parte JOHN R. FRANZINI                                                                                  
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                                                                       Appeal No. 97-3755                                                                                  
                                                                     Application 08/079,3381                                                                               
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                                                                             ON BRIEF                                                                                      
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                    Before MEISTER, STAAB and McQUADE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                                       
                    MEISTER, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                                  
                                                                   DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                                      
                              John R. Franzini (the appellant) appeals from the rejection of claims 17 and 19.   Claims 1-             2                                   
                    16 stand allowed.   Claims 18, 20 and 21, the only other claims present in the application, have3                                                                                                                               

                    been indicated as be allowable subject to the requirement that they be rewritten to include all the                                                    


                              1Application for patent filed June 18, 1993.                                                                                                 
                              2Claims 17 and 19 have been “twice rejected” within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. § 134.                                                          
                              3The final rejection of claims 10, 11, 14 and 16 was withdrawn by the examiner in the                                                        
                    answer (see page 2).                                                                                                                                   
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