Ex parte EDWARD - 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                    for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13         

                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                                Ex parte THOMAS EDWARD                                
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                                 Appeal No. 2000-1029                                 
                              Application No. 08/867,617                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before GARRIS, PAK, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          GARRIS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection of            
          claims 1-7 which are all of the claims in the application.                  
               The subject matter on appeal relates to a method of forming            
          a bond between a rubber body and a surface of a body such as a              
          vehicle mount bracket member which has been coated with an epoxy            
          resin cured at least to an immobile film at room temperature.               
          The method comprises pressing a chlorinated surface of the                  






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