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          Appeal No. 94-2097                                                          
          Application 07/875,630                                                      


          obviousness-type double patenting over the claims in                        
          application Serial No. 08/009,353; (2) whether the examiner                 
          erred in rejecting all of the appealed claims under the                     
          judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double                      
          patenting over the claims in U.S. Patent No. 5,019,382; and                 
          (3) whether the examiner erred in rejecting all of the                      
          appealed claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over                  
          Hasegawa or Tompkins.                                                       
                                    DELIBERATIONS                                     
               Our deliberations in this matter have included evaluation              
          and review of the following materials:  (1) the instant                     
          specification, including all of the claims on appeal; (2)                   
          appellant's Brief before the Board; (3) the Examiner's Answer;              
          (4) the prior art references cited and relied on by the                     
          examiner; (5) the Stewart Declaration, filed under the                      
          provisions of 37 CFR § 1.132, executed March 20, 1993; (6) the              
          Cummins Declaration, filed under the provisions of 37 CFR                   
          § 1.132, executed                                                           
          March 19, 1993; and (7) the decision, adhered to on                         
          reconsideration, by another merits panel of this Board in                   
          parent application Serial No. 07/044,317 (Appeal No. 90-3336).              

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