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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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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 ALEXANDER LIFSON                               
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                                Appeal No. 2001-1484                                  
                               Application 09/092,368                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before COHEN, PATE, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.                 
          PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                          

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   


               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1                 
          through 7, 11 and 12.  Claims 8 through 10 and 13 through 15                
          stand objected to but otherwise contain allowable subject matter.           
          These are all the claims in the application.                                
               The claimed invention is directed to an improvement in the             
          compressor art in which a compressor is rotated in reverse for a            
          limited time after start-up.                                                

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