Ex parte ROMAN - Page 1




             The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
                    for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.        

                                                                 Paper No. 14         

                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                               Ex parte WALTER C. ROMAN                               
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                                 Appeal No. 2000-1479                                 
                              Application No. 08/915,355                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before CALVERT, NASE, and GONZALES, 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 9, 14 to 19, 23 and 24.  Claims 10 to              
          13 and 25 to 27 have been objected to as depending from a non-              
          allowed claim.  Claims 20 to 22 have been canceled.                         


               We REVERSE.                                                            







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