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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                     journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22                     

                               UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                  
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                                    BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                    
                                                AND INTERFERENCES                                                         
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                            Ex parte DONALD A. BRAULT, DOUGLAS A. CAHILL,                                                 
                              RICHARD S. HIMMELWRIGHT and DENE H. TAYLOR                                                  
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                                                Appeal No. 97-0222                                                        
                                            Application 08/115,5611                                                       
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                                                       ON BRIEF                                                           
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              Before KIMLIN, WEIFFENBACH and ELLIS, Administrative Patent                                                 
              Judges.                                                                                                     
              KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                        

                                                DECISION ON APPEAL                                                        
                     This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-37,                                           
              42, 43 and 44, all the claims remaining in the present                                                      
              application.  Claim 1 is illustrative:                                                                      
                     1.  A process for preparing a protected ink image comprising                                         
                     A) imagewise depositing one or more ink images on an ink                                             
              receptor, the ink receptor comprising                                                                       


                     1Application for patent filed September 3, 1993.                                                     
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