Ex parte POLING - Page 1




                                    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                 not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19                                 
                                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                        
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                                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                         
                                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                                           
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                                                    Ex parte THURMAN Q. POLING                                                                          
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                                                           Appeal No. 95-4589                                                                           
                                                       Application 08/042,8881                                                                          
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                                                                    ON BRIEF                                                                            
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                 Before COHEN, MEISTER and McQUADE, Administrative Patent                                                                               
                 Judges.                                                                                                                                
                 MEISTER, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                  

                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           

                          Thurman Q. Poling (the appellant) appeals from the final                                                                      
                 rejection of claims 1-20, the only claims present in the                                                                               
                 application.   We affirm-in-part.2                                                                                                                


                          1Application for patent filed April 5, 1993.                                                                                  
                          2In the advisory action dated August 8, 1994 (Paper No.                                                                       
                 10) the examiner stated that the amendment after final                                                                                 
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