Ex Parte KING et al - Page 1



          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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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. 30              
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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            Ex parte TIMOTHY J. KING, JAMES J. BEECH and NEVILLE J. PRYKE             
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                                Appeal No. 2000-2017                                  
                               Application 08/935,916                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before McCANDLISH, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, PATE, and            
          STAAB, Administrative Patent Judges.                                        
          PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                          
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 2,             
          4-7, 9-16 and 18-25.  These are all the claims that remain in the           
          application.                                                                
               The claimed invention is directed to a refillable dispenser            
          for dispensing flexible sheets from a stack of sheets.  The                 
          refillable dispenser is composed of a relatively flat flexible              
          base sheet devoid of dispensing slots, the base sheet being                 

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