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                    THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                      
               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
               today (1) was not written for publication in a law                     
               journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                 
                                                               Paper No. 25           

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                               Ex parte JOHN L. WHITE                                 
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                                 Appeal No. 94-3737                                   
                               Application 07/796,9321                                
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before KIMLIN, WEIFFENBACH and PAK, Administrative Patent Judges.           
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-20,             
          all the claims in the present application.  Claim 1 is                      
          illustrative:                                                               
               1.  In a process for the production of synthetic diamonds              
          wherein silicon carbide as the sole non-diamondaceous source of             
          carbon is heated at superatmospheric pressure while in the                  
          diamond-stable region of the pressure-temperature diamond-                  
          graphite phase diagram for carbon under conditions which                    

               Application for patent filed November 25, 1991.1                                                                     
          According to appellant, this application is a continuation-in-              
          part of Application 07/611,792, filed November 13, 1990, now                
          abandoned.                                                                  
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