Ex parte KLAS 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               written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding        
               precedent of the Board.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. 25         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                      Ex parte DANIEL E. KLAS and WILLIAM J. ROSE                     
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                                 Appeal No. 1998-0512                                 
                              Application No. 08/477,238                              
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                                 HEARD: March 7, 2000                                 
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          Before KRASS, BARRETT, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 11 through 27, which are all of the claims              
          pending in this application.                                                
               Appellants' invention relates to an apparatus for                      
          reducing crosstalk in a connector circuit for a communications              
          system.  In particular, first and third conductive paths and                
          second and fourth conductive paths are capacitively coupled                 





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