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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 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 GEORGE S. MORDUE and RICHARD S. HENDERSON
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Appeal No. 1999-0405
Application No. 08/651,571
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HEARD: November 15, 2000
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Before FRANKFORT, NASE, and JENNIFER D. BAHR, Administrative
Patent Judges.
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's refusal
to allow claims 1 through 3, 5 through 8 and 20 as amended
subsequent to the final rejection in a paper filed October 22,
1997 (Paper No. 6) and from the examiner’s final rejection of
claims 9 through 19. Claim 4 has been canceled.1
1Claims 6 and 8 on appeal are currently indicated as
being dependent from canceled claim 4. For purposes of this
appeal we have considered these claims as being dependent from
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