Ex parte MCATARIAN - 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                  for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 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 MARK F. McATARIAN                                                                  
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                                                       Appeal No. 1998-0030                                                                   
                                                  Application No. 08/151,9601                                                                 
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                                                                 ON BRIEF                                                                     
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                Before KRASS, NASE, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                  
                NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                            



                                                         DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                   
                         This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                                                               
                rejection of claims 1 to 3, 8 and 9.  Claims 13 to 20 have                                                                    
                been allowed.  Claims 4 to 7 and 10-12, the remaining claims                                                                  
                pending in this application, have been objected to as                                                                         
                depending from a non-allowed claim.                                                                                           



                         1Application for patent filed November 15, 1993.                                                                     





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