Ex parte HEIJNEN et al. - 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                         journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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 JOSEPH J. HEIJNEN, WILHELMUS A. A. KOEVOETS                                                               
                                                   and ROBERT J. ZOETEMEYER                                                                   
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                                                        Appeal No. 96-0889                                                                    
                                                    Application 08/089,9441                                                                   
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                                                                ON BRIEF                                                                      
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                Before SOFOCLEOUS, OWENS and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                             
                SOFOCLEOUS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                      


                                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                    
                                 This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 5                                                       
                and 8, all the claims remaining in the application.                                                                           



                         1Application for patent filed July 9, 1993.  According to                                                            
                appellants, this application is a division of Application                                                                     
                07/581,135, filed September 10, 1990, now U.S. Patent No.                                                                     
                5,230,794, issued July 27, 1993; which is a continuation of                                                                   
                Application 07/254,053, filed October 6, 1988, now abandoned.                                                                 
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