Ex parte LABESKY - 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          not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                            Ex parte MATTHEW JOHN LABESKY                             
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                                Appeal No. 2000-0102                                  
                               Application 08/819,449                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before CALVERT, STAAB, and McQUADE, Administrative Patent                   
          Judges.                                                                     
          CALVERT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   

               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1,                
          4, 6, 8 and 9, all the claims remaining in the application.                 
               Claim 1, the only independent claim on appeal, defines                 
          the subject matter in issue as:                                             
               1.  A Belleville spring comprising a thin strip of                     
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