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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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21             
                                                                                   
                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                   _____________                                    
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                   _____________                                    
                 Ex parte FREDERIK W. FREERKS, TETSUYA Y. ISHIKAWA,                 
                        TIMOTHY Y. WANG, JEFFREY C. HUDGENS,                        
                              MOHSEN SALEK, TIM LEONG,                              
                         AL DIFRANCESCO and JAMES R. CIULIK                         
                                  ______________                                    
                                Appeal No. 2003-0668                                
                               Application 09/324,889                               
                                  ______________                                    
                                      ON BRIEF                                      
                                  _______________                                   

         Before PAK, LIEBERMAN, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent              
         Judges.                                                                    
         PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.                                  


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 

              This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the           
         examiner's rejection of claims 24 through 46.  These are all of            
         the claims pending in the application.                                     
              Claims 24 and 31 are representative of the subject                    
         matter on appeal and are set forth below:                                  
              24.   A robot blade, comprising:                                      
                   a body having a blade surface that is at least                   
              partially semi-conductive;                                            









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