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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 MEINERT MEYER, KLAUS KUPPERS, MANFRED ALBEDYHL                
                                   and BRUNO BOHMER                                    
                                      ____________                                     
                                  Appeal No. 2003-0764                                 
                               Application No. 09/660,797                              
                                      ____________                                     
                                        ON BRIEF                                       
                                      ____________                                     
          Before WALTZ, TIMM, and PAWLIKOWSKI, 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 and 8 through 10, which are the only             
          claims remaining in this application.  We have jurisdiction                  
          pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134.                                                 
               According to appellants, the invention is directed to a method          
          of cooling a steel section from rolling heat, where the section has          
          different section parts of different masses located at a distance            
          from each other over a cross-section of the section (Brief, page             
          3).  The method comprises subjecting the steel section with the              






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