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             The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was         
             not written for publication and is not precedent of the Board.         
                                                            Paper No. 17            
                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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           Ex parte GERALD ADAMS, EZAT KHOSHDEL, ANTHONY MORETTA, YVONNE            
                       CHRISTINE PLANT, and EUAN STUART REID                        
                                                                                   
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                                Appeal No. 2003-0878                                
                             Application No. 09/575,903                             
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                                      ON BRIEF                                      
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         Before ADAMS, PAWLIKOWSKI and GREEN, Administrative Patent                 
         Judges.                                                                    
         PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.                                  

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 

              This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s           
         final rejection of claims 1, and 3-6.                                      
              Claim 1 is representative of the subject matter on appeal             
         and is set forth below:                                                    
                   1. A process for making a polysiloxane block                     
              copolymer which is built up from units of the formula                 
              [A][B], in which A is a polymeric block built up from                 
              radically polymerizable monomer, and B is a                           







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