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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        written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16           

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                     __________                                       
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                     __________                                       
                              Ex parte JAMES R. MYERS,                                
                                   DAVID R. SMITH,                                    
                               WILLIAM J. DEGNAN, III,                                
                                         and                                          
                                LAWRENCE A. WESTHOVEN                                 
                                     __________                                       
                                Appeal No. 1999-1907                                  
                             Application No. 08/690,409                               
                                     ___________                                      
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                     ___________                                      
          Before GARRIS, DELMENDO, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative               
          Patent Judges.                                                              
          DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from             
          the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1 through 22, which are            
          all of the claims pending in the above-identified application.              
               The subject matter on appeal relates to an infrared-                   
          transparent structure comprising at least a first infrared                  








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