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             The opinion in support of the decision being entered today               
          was not written for publication is not binding precedent of                 
          the Board.                                                                  
                                                            Paper No. 14              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                     __________                                       
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
                                     __________                                       
                             Ex parte JOHN E. MAHN, SR.                               
                                and JOHN E. MANN, JR.                                 
                                     __________                                       
                                Appeal No. 1997-3266                                  
                                Application 08/374,960                                
                                     ___________                                      
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                     ___________                                      
          Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, PAK and OWENS, Administrative Patent               
          Judges.                                                                     
          OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the examiner’s final rejection of               
          claims 10 and 12, and refusal to allow claims 13 and 14 as                  
          amended after final rejection.  Claim 11, which is the only                 
          other claim remaining in the application, stands withdrawn                  
          from consideration by the examiner as being directed toward a               
          nonelected invention.                                                       

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