Ex Parte GENTRY et al - Page 1



               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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 24         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                       Ex parte JOSEPH C. GENTRY and FU-MING LEE                      
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                                 Appeal No. 2001-2525                                 
                              Application No. 09/000,579                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before WARREN, LIEBERMAN and KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judges.           
          KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1-16, 22, 23 and 55, which are all of the               
          claims pending in this application.                                         
                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               Appellants' invention relates to a process for recovering              
          aromatics from a mixed hydrocarbon feedstock containing aromatics           
          and non-aromatics.  The process includes the parallel processing            
          of separate portions of the feedstock in a liquid-liquid                    
          extractor and in an extractive distillation column with the                 
          separately processed feedstock portions having the same                     





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