Ex parte TETHER et al. - Page 2




                 Appeal No. 97-0608                                                                                                                     
                 Application 08/287,143                                                                                                                 



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                 Before STONER, Chief Administrative Patent Judge, and MEISTER,                                                                         
                 FRANKFORT, PATE and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                                
                 FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                


                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           
                                   This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's                                                                     
                 final rejection of claims 12 through 20 and from the exam-                                                                             
                 iner's refusal to allow claims 1 and 3 through 11 as amended                                                                           
                 subsequent to the final rejection in a paper filed November                                                                            
                 16, 1995 (Paper No. 10).  Claim 2 has been canceled.2                                                                                  


                                   Appellants' invention relates to a process for                                                                       
                 manufacturing void fill material.  As is apparent from a                                                                               
                 review of the specification, void fill material constitutes                                                                            

                          2While the examiner has approved entry (in-part) of the                                                                       
                 amendment filed November 16, 1995, we note that such changes                                                                           
                 have not been clerically entered in the file in the manner                                                                             
                 specified by the examiner.  Correction of this oversight                                                                               
                 should be attended to during any further prosecution of this                                                                           
                 application before the examiner.                                                                                                       
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