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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          not binding precedent of the Board.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. 34              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                               Ex parte JOHNNY ARNAUD                                 
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                                Appeal No. 1997-0537                                  
                               Application 07/749,554                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before KIMLIN, WARREN and OWENS, Administrative Patent Judges.              
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 3              
          and 7.  Claim 2, the other claim remaining in the present                   
          application, has been allowed by the examiner (see page 1 of                
          answer.  Claim 1 is illustrative:                                           
               1.  A system for the regeneration of contact media,                    
               comprising:                                                            
                    a treatment vessel having a plurality of                          
                    vertically arranged chambers, each chamber                        
                    having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, said                     





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