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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                                   (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 24                                 

                                        UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                       
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                                               BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                       
                                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                                           
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                                                           Ex parte LIANG C. DONG,                                                                      
                                               MICHAEL H. DEALEY, TERRY L. BURKOTH,                                                                     
                                               PATRICK S. L. WONG, JERRY D. CHILDERS                                                                    
                                                            and BRIAN L. BARCLAY                                                                        
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                                                               Appeal No. 95-0815                                                                       
                                                              Application 07/963,9671                                                                   
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                                                                     ON BRIEF                                                                           
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                 Before JOHN D. SMITH, PAK and WARREN, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                    

                 WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                   
                                                        Decision on Appeal and Opinion                                                                  
                          This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the decision of the examiner finally rejecting                                   
                 claims 11, 13 through 15 and 41 through 43, all of the claims in the application.2                                                     
                          We have carefully considered the record before us, and based thereon, find that we cannot                                     
                 sustain the examiner’s rejection of all of the appealed claims under 35 U.S.C § 103 over Theeuwes et                                   
                                                                                                                                                       
                 1  Application for patent filed October 21, 1992. According to appellants, this application is a division                              
                 of application 07/804,137, filed December 6, 1991, now U.S. Patent 5,200,195, issued April 6, 1993.                                    


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