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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          not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                  Ex parte MOHAMAD D. SHALATI, JAMES A. MARQUART,                     
                         JOHN R. BABJAK and  RODNEY M. HARRIS                         
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                                Appeal No. 1996-0438                                  
                               Application 08/090,343                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before KIMLIN, GARRIS and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges.              
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 26-               
          29 and 34-37.  Claims 30-32, the other claims remaining in the              
          present application, have been allowed by the examiner.                     
               Claim 26 is illustrative:                                              
                    26. A curable composition which comprises:                        
                    (i) an anhydride-functional compound having an                    
                    average of at least two cyclic carboxylic acid                    
                    anhydride groups per molecule; and                                





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