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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                was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not                                                               
                binding precedent of the Board.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. 29                              

                                    UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                 
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                                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                  
                                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                                                     
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                                                    Ex parte MICHEL FALLAH                                                                    
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                                                        Appeal No. 96-1774                                                                    
                                                    Application 07/822,2071                                                                   
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                                                                ON BRIEF                                                                      
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                Before KRASS, TORCZON, and CARMICHAEL, Administrative Patent                                                                  
                Judges.                                                                                                                       
                CARMICHAEL, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                      

                                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                    

                         This is an appeal from the final rejection of Claims 9, 10,                                                          
                15, and 16.  The other claims remaining in the application,                                                                   
                Claims 11-14, have been objected to as being dependent upon a                                                                 
                rejected base claim, but allowable if rewritten in independent                                                                
                form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any                                                               
                intervening claims.  We reverse.                                                                                              

                         1Application for patent filed January 17, 1992.                                                                      





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