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                                                       Paper No. 34                   
               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          (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                                  

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                   _______________                                    
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                   _______________                                    
                                Ex parte PAUL D. CASE                                 
                               and ALAN G. STEPHENSON                                 
                                   ______________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 97-0292                                   
                              Application 07/814,7791                                 
                                   _______________                                    
                              HEARD: December 11, 1997                                
                                   _______________                                    
          Before COHEN, MEISTER and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent                   
          Judges.                                                                     
          MEISTER, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       
                                                                                     
                              ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING                                
               The appellants request we reconsider our decision mailed               
          on December 31, 1997, wherein we affirmed the examiner’s                    
          rejections of (1) claims 1, 4-6, 8, 12-23, 26 and 29-31 as                  


               Application for patent filed December 30, 1991.  According to1                                                                     
          appellants, this application is a continuation of Application 07/541,861,   
          filed June 21, 1990, now abandoned.                                         
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