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             Appeal No. 2004-0421                                                                                    
             Application No. 09/749,923                                                                              
                                                 CONCLUSION                                                          
                    The rejections of claims 12 to 18 and 20 to 27 as unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. §                 
             103(a) as obvious over the combination of the admitted prior art and Fagan; and claim                   
             19 unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over the combination of the                         
             admitted prior art, Fagan and Holtkamp are reversed.                                                    


                                                   REVERSED                                                          



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                                  PETER F. KRATZ                    )                                                
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                                  JEFFREY T. SMITH                  )                                                
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