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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          not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16              
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                             Ex parte DAVID M. CARPENTER                              
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                                Appeal No. 1997-3704                                  
                               Application 08/572,183                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before CALVERT, STAAB and GONZALES, Administrative Patent                   
          Judges.                                                                     
          GONZALES, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                              ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING                                
               This is in response to the appellant's request for                     
          rehearing  of our decision mailed January 19, 2000 (Paper No.1,2                                                                
          14), wherein we affirmed the rejections of claims 1 and 2                   


               Filed February 9, 2000.1                                                                     
               Effective Dec. 1, 1997, 37 C.F.R. § 1.197(b) was amended to change the2                                                                     
          term "reconsideration" to "rehearing."  See the final rule notice published at
          62 Fed. Reg. 53131, 53197 (Oct. 10, 1997), 1203 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 63, 122
          (Oct. 21, 1997)).                                                           
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