Ex Parte WARD 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                                    for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 24              
                               UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                
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                                    BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                  
                                                AND INTERFERENCES                                                       
                                                     ____________                                                       
                           Ex parte ANDREW JOHN WARD and DAVID CHARLES HURST                                            
                                                     ____________                                                       
                                                 Appeal No. 2002-0346                                                   
                                               Application No. 08/952,673                                               
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                                                       ON BRIEF                                                         
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              Before ABRAMS, STAAB, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                             
              ABRAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                      



                                                DECISION ON APPEAL                                                      
                     This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 3, 9-                
              13 and 20.  Claims 7 and 19 have been allowed and claims 4-6, 8 and 14-18 have been                       
              indicated as containing allowable subject matter but objected to for depending from a                     
              rejected claim (Paper No. 16, page 4).                                                                    


                     We REVERSE.                                                                                        









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