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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          not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15                   

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                     __________                                       
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                     __________                                       
                    Ex parte JOSEPH A. PICARD, WILLIAM H. ROARK                       
                                  and BRUCE D. ROTH                                   
                                     __________                                       
                                  Appeal No. 95-2879                                  
                               Application 08/085,6571                                
                                     __________                                       
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                     __________                                       

          Before METZ, ELLIS and OWENS, Administrative Patent Judges.                 
          ELLIS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the                       
          examiner’s final rejection of 1, 2, 5 through 8, 10 and 11,                 
          the only claims remaining in the application.  Claims 3, 4, 9               
          and 12 have been canceled.                                                  


               1Application for patent filed July 1, 1993.  According to the          
          appellants this application is a continuation of Application 07/776,112, filed
          October 15, 1991, now U.S. Patent No. 5,254,599, issued October 19, 1993.   





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