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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                                   today was not written for publication and is not binding                                           
                                   precedent of the Board.                                                                            
                                                                                              Paper No. 18                            
                                   UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                          
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                                        BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                            
                                                     AND INTERFERENCES                                                                
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                                               Ex parte ROBERT S. CARDWELL,                                                           
                                   BRIAN W.S. KOLTHAMMER and DEEPAK R. PARIKH                                                         
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                                                      Appeal No. 2000-1551                                                            
                                                      Application 08/858,664                                                          
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                                                             ON BRIEF                                                                 
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               Before WARREN, LIEBERMAN and KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                      
               WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                   
                                                 Decision on Appeal and Opinion                                                       
                       We have carefully considered the record in this appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134, including                        
               the opposing views of the examiner, in the answer, and appellants, in the brief and reply brief,                       
               and based on our review, find that we cannot sustain the grounds of rejections of appealed claims                      
               16 through 201 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by or, in the alternative, under 35 U.S.C.                      
               § 103(a) as being obvious over Stehling et al. (Stehling)2 or Ewen et al. (Ewen), or the combined                      
               teachings of these references; and under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Stehling                        

                                                                                                                                     
               1  See the amendment of August 18, 1999 (Paper No. 11) in which claims 16 through 18, and                              
               thus also claims 19 and 20, were amended and claims 1 through 15 and 21 through 24 were                                
               canceled. Thus, claims 16 through 20 are all of the claims in the application.                                         
               2  Stehling is referred to in the answer as “WO ‘414.”                                                                 

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