Ex parte PHILIPS et al. - Page 1




                    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          not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                  Ex parte RICHARD B. PHILIPS and ROBERT KUKLINSKI                    
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                                Appeal No. 1998-1736                                  
                               Application 08/282,847                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before CALVERT, ABRAMS and STAAB, Administrative Patent                     
          Judges.                                                                     
          CALVERT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 to              
          11, all the claims in the application.                                      
               Claim 1, the only independent claim, defines the subject               
          matter in issue as follows (emphasis added):                                
               1.  Apparatus for separating gas bubbles from a moving                 
          fluid comprising:                                                           

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