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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          not written for publication is not binding precedent of the                 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. 12           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                       Ex parte ANTHONY ALFRED VAN OSENBRUGGEN                        
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                                Appeal No. 2001-0111                                  
                               Application 09/077,376                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before ABRAMS, MCQUADE, and NASE, Administrative Patent                     
          Judges.                                                                     
          MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               Anthony Alfred Van Osenbruggen appeals from the final                  
          rejection of claims 1, 3, 4, 6 through 8, 10 and 12 through                 
          14.  Claims 2, 5, 9 and 11, the only other claims pending in                
          the application, stand withdrawn from consideration pursuant                
          to 37 CFR § 1.142(b).                                                       
                                    THE INVENTION                                     
               The invention relates to “backing plates for abrasive                  
          disks” (specification, page 1).  Representative claim 1 reads               
          as follows:                                                                 
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