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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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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. 28              
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                             Ex parte RAYMOND H. JENSEN                               
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                                Appeal No. 2002-0573                                  
                               Application 09/150,422                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before COHEN, ABRAMS, and FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                     
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1 through 5.  Claims 6 and 7, the only other            
          claims pending in the application, have been allowed.1                      

               Appellant’s invention relates to an integral combined pipe             
          drop nipple and reducing coupling assembly (29) used in a fire              

               1 A minor amendment to claim 1 was made subsequent to the              
          final rejection. See Paper No. 17, filed January 22, 2001.                  
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