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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          (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                             Ex parte KLASS W. DE GROOT                               
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                                 Appeal No. 97-2222                                   
                               Application 08/380,6611                                
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before COHEN, MEISTER, and STAAB, Administrative Patent                     
          Judges.                                                                     
          Meister, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 12,               
          14, 15 and 17.  Claims 13 and 16, the only other claims                     


               Application for patent filed January 30, 1995.  According to appellant,1                                                                     
          this application is a divisional of application 08/045,875, filed April 15, 
          1993, now U.S. Patent No. 5,391,114, issued February 21, 1995.              
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