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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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.        


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                               Ex parte SATORU TANGE                                  
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                                Appeal No. 2005-0958                                  
                             Application No. 09/944,477                               
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                                     ON BRIEF                                         
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          Before KIMLIN, PAK, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          PAK, Administrative Patent Judge.                                           
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from             
          the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1 through 5, which are             
          all of the claims pending in the present application.                       
                               APPEALED SUBJECT MATTER                                
               The subject matter on appeal is directed to a process for              
          manufacturing a composite sheet comprising at least one first web           
          capable of elastic stretch and contraction and at least one                 
          second web incapable of elastic stretch and contraction, with               
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