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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          not binding precedent of the Board.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. 10              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                              Ex parte DANIEL GILLESPIE                               
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                                Appeal No. 2000-0504                                  
                               Application 08/799,898                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before PATE, STAAB, and JENNIFER D. BAHR, Administrative                    
          Patent Judges.                                                              
          PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                          

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
                   This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims              
          1 through 17 and 21 through 23.  These are all the claims in                
          the application.                                                            
               The claimed invention is directed to an apparatus for                  
          holding and stabilizing a Christmas tree.  The apparatus is                 
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