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The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was
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Paper No. 14
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte FRANK A. SOMMERFELDT
and JAMES B. JORNLIN
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Appeal No. 1997-3264
Application 08/501,769
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, PAK and OWENS, Administrative Patent Judges.
OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the examiner’s final rejection of
claims 1-7. Claim 8, which is the only other claim remaining
in the application, has been objected to as being dependent
upon a rejected base claim, but the examiner states that this
claim would be allowable if rewritten in independent form
including all of the limitations of the base claim and any
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