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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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of                 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. 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 SEAN P. HANSON                                
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                                Appeal No. 1999-2774                                  
                               Application 08/794,337                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before McCANDLISH, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, and                  
          FRANKFORT and JENNIFER D. BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.               
          FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                     



          ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING                                                    
          This is in response to appellant’s request for rehearing                    
          of our decision mailed September 28, 2000, wherein we affirmed              
          the examiner's rejection of claims 1 through 6, 10 through 13,              
          22 and 23 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over               
          Kee in view of Law or Utterberg, and reversed the examiner’s                

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