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                    THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                      
           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                     publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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          Ex parte EDWARD C. COUBLE, MARK J. KAPECKAS, STEVEN M. FLORIO,              
                                and DAVID L. JACQUES                                  
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 2000-1835                                 
                              Application No. 08/868,092                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before OWENS, KRATZ and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 13-23, which are all of the claims pending in           
          this application.                                                           
                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               Appellants' invention relates to a process for                         
          electroplating the walls of holes in a printed circuit board.               
          Appellants state that “[t]he rejected claims do not stand or fall           
          together” (brief, page 5).  Accordingly, we shall treat the                 




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