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                 The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was                                                                         
                 not written for publication and is not binding precedent of                                                                            
                 the Board.                                                                                                                             
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                                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                        
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                                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                         
                                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                                           
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                                                      Ex parte BRUCE A. HUNTER                                                                          
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                                                          Appeal No. 2000-1623                                                                          
                                                        Application 09/030,385                                                                          
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                                                                    ON BRIEF                                                                            
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                 Before CALVERT, FRANKFORT, and NASE, Administrative Patent                                                                             
                 Judges.                                                                                                                                
                 CALVERT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                  

                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           
                          This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 to                                                                     
                 5, all the claims in the application.                                                                                                  
                          The claims on appeal recite an insert adapted to be                                                                           
                 inserted in a T-shaped slot (claims 1 to 3 and 5), or a panel                                                                          
                 assembly (claim 4), and are reproduced in the corrected                                                                                
                 Appendix A filed on October 27, 2000.1                                                                                                 

                          1We note that in claim 5, --can be-- apparently should be                                                                     
                 inserted after “configuration” (line 3).                                                                                               
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