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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          (2)  is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 33              


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                Ex parte MATTHEW A. HOWARD, MARK MAYBERG, SEAN GRADY,                 
                       ROGERS C. RITTER and GEORGE T. GILLIES                         
                                    ____________                                      
                                 Appeal No. 96-0022                                   
                               Application 08/096,2141                                
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          ABRAMS, FRANKFORT and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges.               
          CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
                    This is an appeal from the examiner's final rejection             
          of claims 39, 42, 43 and 44.  Claims 1-38 have been canceled,               

            Application for patent filed July 19, 1993.  According to1                                                                      
          appellants, this application is a continuation of Application               
          07/904,032 filed June 25, 1992, now abandoned, which is a                   
          division of Application 07/463,340 filed January 10, 1990, now              
          Patent No. 5,125,888.                                                       

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