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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          for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the     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. 17           
                        UNITED STATES BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                    
                                     ____________                                      
                               Ex parte  UWE KLINGLER,                                 
                           THOMAS SCHIEB, DIETMAR WASTIAN,                             
                        GERHARD WIECHERS, and JURGEN ZIMMERMAN                         
                                     ____________                                      
                                 Appeal No. 2000-0635                                  
                             Application No. 08/511,0281                               
                                     ____________                                      
                                       ON BRIEF                                        
                                     ____________                                      
          Before McKELVEY, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, and                     
          SCHAFER and GARDNER-LANE, Administrative Patent Judges.                      
          GARDNER-LANE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                   

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               Applicants seek review under 35 U.S.C. § 134 of the                     
          examiner's final rejection of claims 1-10.  We AFFIRM.                       
                                      BACKGROUND                                       
               The claims are directed to a process for the production                 
          of a dinitrotoluene isomer mixture.  According to applicants,                
          "[n]one of the claims will be argued separately" (Paper 11                   
          (App. Br.) at 3).  "Because the claims are not separately                    

             Application for patent filed 3 August 1995.1                                                                        





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