Ex parte CICCOLLELLA 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                 (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 34                            
                                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                        
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                                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                         
                                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                                           
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                                 Ex parte MICHAEL CICCOLLELLA and PAUL A. MATULA                                                                        
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                                                          Appeal No. 1996-0456                                                                          
                                                    Application No. 08/072,6541                                                                         
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                                                                    ON BRIEF                                                                            
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                 Before FRANKFORT, PATE, and McQUADE, Administrative Patent                                                                             
                 Judges.                                                                                                                                
                 PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                     


                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           
                          This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 12                                                                       
                 through 17, 21 and 24 through 27.  Claims 23 and 28 were                                                                               
                 cancelled subsequent to final rejection.  These are the only                                                                           
                 claims in the application.                                                                                                             


                          1Application for patent filed June 3, 1993.  According to                                                                     
                 appellants, the application is a continuation of Application                                                                           
                 07/565,626, filed August 10, 1990; now abandoned.                                                                                      





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