Ex parte CARLSON 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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of                 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. 27              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                     __________                                       
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                   Ex parte PAULA J. CARLSON, CATHLEEN M. NORLAND,                    
                         NICOL M. LARSON and JOHN J. ROLANDO                          
                                     __________                                       
                                Appeal No. 2000-0057                                  
                               Application 08/748,053                                 
                                     ___________                                      
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                     ___________                                      
          Before OWENS, KRATZ and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1-4, 6-              
          16 and 39-49.  Claims 17-38, which are all of the other claims              
          remaining in the application, stand withdrawn from                          
          consideration by the examiner as being directed toward a                    
          nonelected invention.                                                       


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