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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          not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                              Ex parte THOMAS W. PARKER                               
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                                 Appeal No. 97-0970                                   
                               Application 08/307,3481                                
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before CALVERT, FRANKFORT and STAAB, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                     

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
          This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                      
          rejection of claims 1 through 4, 6, 12 and 15 through 17.                   
          Claims 10, 11, 13 and 14 have been canceled.  Claims 5 and 7                
          through 9, the only other claims pending in the application,                


               Application for patent filed September 16, 1994.1                                                                     
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