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          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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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. 20           

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                               Ex parte HANNO REIMANN,                                
                                    GÖTZ REIMANN,                                     
                                         and                                          
                                 SIEGFRIED MEININGER                                  
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                                Appeal No. 1999-0772                                  
                             Application No. 08/600,165                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before KIMLIN, WALTZ, and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent                   
          Judges.                                                                     
          DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from             
          the examiner’s refusal to allow claims 12 through 17 in the                 
          above-identified application.1  Claims 7 through 11, which are              


                                                                                     
               1  In response to the final Office action of December 16,              
          1997 (paper 12), the appellants submitted an amendment under 37             
          CFR § 1.116 (1981), proposing changes to claims 12 and 14-16.               
          The examiner indicated in the advisory action of March 23, 1998             





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