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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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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. 15              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                              Ex parte RICHARD MANSUETO                               
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                                Appeal No. 2002-0670                                  
                               Application 09/416,547                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before FRANKFORT, PATE, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                          

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1                 
          through 3, 6, 7, 14, 16, 18 and 19, and the examiner’s refusal to           
          allow claims 23 through 25, 28, 29, 36, 38, 40 and 41 as amended            
          after final rejection.  Claims 4, 5, 8 through 11, 15, 17, 20               
          through 22, 26, 27, 30 through 33, 37, 39 and 42 through 64 stand           
          withdrawn from consideration as directed to a nonelected                    
          invention.  Claims 12, 13, 34 and 35 have been canceled.  These             
          are all the claims in the application.                                      

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