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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                                     for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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.  32                 
                               UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                   
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                                     BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                    
                                                AND INTERFERENCES                                                          
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                                           Ex parte HORST ABRAMOWSKI                                                       
                                                          and                                                              
                                                   JAMES D. WELLS                                                          
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                                                Appeal No. 1998-1671                                                       
                                             Application No. 08/481,186                                                    
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                                                        ON BRIEF                                                           
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              Before WARREN, LIEBERMAN, and JEFFREY T. SMITH,  Administrative Patent Judges.                               
              LIEBERMAN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                      
                                            ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING                                                       
                     Pursuant to the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.197(b)(1997), appellants have                                
              submitted a timely Request for Rehearing (hereafter "Request") of our Decision dated                         
              July 19, 2001, affirming the following rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103:  Claims 1,                          
              3 through 6, 8 through 13, 15, 16, 22 through 27 and 29 as being unpatentable over                           
              Albanese.                                                                                                    
                     Appellants’ request rehearing as the Decision based on Albanese constitutes a new                     
              ground of rejection.  See Request, page 1.  In this respect “appellants respectfully request                 





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