Ex parte HOWIE - Page 1




                                    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                          journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the                                                                               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. 25                            
                                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                        
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                                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                         
                                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                                           
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                                                        Ex parte JOHN K. HOWIE                                                                          
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                                                          Appeal No. 1996-0875                                                                          
                                                    Application No. 08/169,9181                                                                         
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                                                                    ON BRIEF                                                                            
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                 Before JOHN D. SMITH, PAK and SPIEGEL, Administrative Patent                                                                           
                 Judges.                                                                                                                                
                 JOHN D. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                            


                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           
                                   This is an appeal pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134 from                                                                   
                 the final rejection of claims 1-19.                                                                                                    
                          Representative claims 1 and 17 are reproduced below:                                                                          



                          1Application for patent filed December 20, 1993.                                                                              
                 According to the appellant, the application is a continuation-                                                                         
                 in-part of Application No. 07/968,775, filed on October 30,                                                                            
                 1992, now abandoned.                                                                                                                   





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