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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                                     for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 23              

                           UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                      
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                                 BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                       
                                               AND INTERFERENCES                                                          
                                                      ____________                                                        
                                 Ex parte CHRISTOPH OSTER and MARTIN WAGNER                                               
                                                      ____________                                                        
                                                  Appeal No. 2001-2045                                                    
                                                Application No. 09/360,936                                                
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                                                        ON BRIEF1                                                         
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              Before COHEN, FRANKFORT, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                            
              NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                          



                                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                                       
                     This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection (Paper No. 12,                      
              mailed August 10, 2000) of claims 21 to 23, 31, 36 and 38.2  Claim 34, the only other                       
              claim pending in this application, depends from canceled claim 32 and has not been                          



                     1 On October 2, 2002, the appellants waived the oral hearing (see Paper No. 22) scheduled for        
              October 22, 2002.                                                                                           
                     2 Claims 24 to 30, 32, 33, 35 and 37 were canceled subsequent to the final rejection.                





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