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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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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. 13              


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                   _______________                                    
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                   _______________                                    
                          Ex parte TIMOTHY J. FULLER et al.                           
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                                Appeal No. 2002-1097                                  
                             Application No. 09/382,613                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before PAK, WARREN and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges.                 
          WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

          DECISION ON APPEAL                                                          
                    This is a decision on an appeal from the primary                  
          examiner’s final rejection of claims 1, 2, 6, 7 and 9 through 14.           
          Claims 3-5 and 15 are the only other claims pending in this                 
          application and stand withdrawn from further consideration by the           
          examiner as being directed to a non-elected invention (Brief,               
          page 2; final Office action dated June 18, 2001, Paper No. 8,               
          page 3).  We have jurisdiction pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134.                 

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