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                    publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board.                                                  

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                                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                               

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                                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                
                                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                                                    
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                    Ex parte Liza M. Monette, Arnold Lustiger, Michael P. Anderson, John P. Dismukes, H. Daniel                              
                                           Wagner, Cary N. Marzinsky, and Russell R. Mueller                                                 
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                                                         Appeal No. 1996-3974                                                                
                                                         Application 08/198,808                                                              
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                                                                ON BRIEF                                                                     
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                    Before STONER, Chief Administrative Patent Judge,                                                                        
                    HARKCOM, Vice Chief Administrative Patent Judge, and                                                                     
                    WILLIAM F. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                           

                    Per Curiam.                                                                                                              

                                                            DECISION ON APPEAL                                                               

                             This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of claims                           
                    19-23 and 25, all of the claims in the application.  The claimed invention is directed to a                              
                    computer-implemented method for making a composite, incorporating a fiber, a matrix and an                               
                    interphase, that has optimum properties.  Claim 19, the only independent claim, is reproduced at                         
                    page 11 of the brief.                                                                                                    

                             The following reference is relied on by the examiner:                                                           







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