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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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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. 29                
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                             Ex parte BRUCE A. TASSONE                                
                                and WAYNE A. TASSONE                                  
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                                Appeal No. 2003-0618                                  
                             Application No. 09/351,218                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before STAAB, MCQUADE, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.              
          MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               Bruce A. Tassone et al. appeal from the final rejection                
          (Paper No. 22) of claims 15, 16 and 25 through 31, all of the               
          claims pending in the application.                                          
                                    THE INVENTION                                     
               The invention relates to “a system for providing both power            
          augmentation and evaporative cooling in gas turbines”                       
          (specification, page 1).  Representative claims 25 and 28 read as           
          follows:                                                                    
               25. In a gas turbine having a multistage compressor                    
          compressing a flow of air, the compressor having an inlet, the              
          flow of air being directed to the compressor inlet by a duct, a             
          method of increasing power output from the gas turbine by both              





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