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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                              for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 EVA BERGGREN and                                                            
                                                    DAG LINDSTROM                                                                 
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                                                     Appeal 2006-2238                                                             
                                                  Application 10/168,709                                                          
                                                  Technology Center 1700                                                          
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                                               Decided: September 20, 2006                                                        
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                   Before WARREN, WALTZ,  and KRATZ,  Administrative Patent Judges.                                               
                   WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                            

                                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                                               
                          This is a decision on an appeal from the primary Examiner’s final                                       
                   rejection of claims 1 through 19, which are the only claims pending in this                                    
                   application.  We have jurisdiction pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §134.                                                 
                   According to Appellants, the invention is directed to a method for                                             
                   producing cross-linked porous support matrices to be used in a variety of                                      
                   applications, where the starting support matrix has pendent unsaturated                                        
                   groups and is subjected to electron beam or gamma ray radiation to produce                                     





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