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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                    for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 34         

                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                     ____________                                     
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                     ____________                                     
           Ex parte RONALD M. RENDLEMEN, HOWARD W. DeMOORE and JOHN W. BIRD           
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 1999-1348                                 
                              Application No. 08/435,798                              
                                     ____________                                     
                                  HEARD: May 9, 2001                                  
                                     ____________                                     
          Before McCANDLISH, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, NASE  and1                
          BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.                                         

          BAHR, Administrative Patent Judge.                                          



                                 DECISION ON REHEARING                                
               This is a decision on appellants’ request for rehearing                
          under 37 CFR § 1.197 of the Board’s decision mailed June 15,                
          2001 sustaining the examiner’s rejections of claims 1-3, 5, 7,              

               Calvert, Administrative Patent Judge, retired before this case was1                                                                     
          reached for rehearing.  Legal support for substituting one Board member for 
          another can be found in In re Bose Corp., 772 F.2d 866, 869, 227 USPQ 1, 4  
          (Fed. Cir. 1985).                                                           
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