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                    The opinion in support of the decision being                      
                entered today is not binding precedent of the Board.                  
                                                       Paper No. 199                  
          Filed by: Trial Section Merits Panel        Filed: April 21, 2006           
                    Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences                         
                    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office                                  
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                    Alexandria, VA 22313-1450                                         
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                    Fax: 571-273-0042                                                 
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                                    JAY M. SHORT                                      
                                    Junior Party                                      
                               (U.S. Patent 6,479,258)                                
                                         v.                                           
                        JUHA PUNNONEN, WILLEM P. C. STEMMER,                          
                         ROBERT G. WHALEN and RUSSELL HOWARD                          
                                    Senior Party                                      
                              (Application 09/724,869)                                
                                                                                     
                           Patent Interference No. 105,188                            
                                                                                     
          Before: SCHAFER, GRON and TORCZON, Administrative Patent Judges.            
          GRON, Administrative Patent Judge.1                                         
               1                                                                      
                    Administrative Patent Judge Spiegel is presently                  
          unavailable.  A reconstituted panel of Judges Schafer, Gron and             
          Torczon has been designated to consider the present request for             
          rehearing.  See In re Bose Corp., 772 F.2d 866, 869, 227 USPQ 1,            
          3-4 (Fed. Cir. 1985)(permissible exercise of discretion).                   
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