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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          not binding precedent of the Board.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. 35              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                               Ex parte REINHOLD RUGER                                
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                                Appeal No. 1997-2434                                  
                               Application 08/209,174                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before KIMLIN, JOHN D. SMITH and KRATZ, Administrative Patent               
          Judges.                                                                     
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-                
          11, all the claims in the present application.  Claim 1 is                  
          illustra-tive:                                                              
               1.  A process to make ultrahigh contrast                               
               photographic negative images by developing in the                      
               presence of an onium compound a photosensitive                         
               recording material having at least one layer with a                    
               silver halide emul-sion, characterized in that a                       
               molecule of the onium compound has at least one                        
               quaternary nitrogen atom and at least one tertiary                     





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