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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                     ____________                                     
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                     ____________                                     
                     Ex parte JOHN L. EMMONS and ROBERT HARDESTY                      
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 2001-1306                                 
                              Application No. 08/939,762                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
                                     ____________                                     
          Before WALTZ, LIEBERMAN, and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent                
          Judges.                                                                     
          WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final              
          rejection of claims 1, 2 and 4 through 14.  Claims 15 and 16 stand          
          withdrawn from further consideration by the examiner as directed to         
          a non-elected invention (Brief, pages 1-2; see 37 CFR § 1.142(b)).          
          The only other claim pending in this application is claim 17, which         
          has been allowed by the examiner (Brief, pages 1-2; Final Rejection         
          dated Aug. 16, 1999, Paper No. 8, pages 4-5).  We have jurisdiction         
          pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134.                                                





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