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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                                         for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20                 

                              UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                 
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                                    BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                  
                                                    AND INTERFERENCES                                                                   
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                                                   Ex parte ARTHUR VANMOOR                                                              
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                                                        Appeal No. 2002-0011                                                            
                                                     Application No. 09/179,643                                                         
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                                                               ON BRIEF                                                                 
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                Before ABRAMS, NASE, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                            
                NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                      



                                                       DECISION ON APPEAL                                                               
                        This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 and                                
                2.1  Claims 4 to 17 have been withdrawn from consideration under 37 CFR § 1.142(b)                                      
                as being drawn to a nonelected invention.  Claim 3 has been canceled.                                                   


                        We REVERSE.                                                                                                     


                        1 Claim 1 was amended subsequent to the final rejection.                                                        





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