Ex Parte YAPEL 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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 26              
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                    _____________                                     
                     Ex parte ROBERT A. YAPEL, APARNA V. BHAVE,                       
                       TIMOTHY J. EDMAN, BERNARD A. SCHELLER,                         
                       LAWRENCE B. WALLACE and JERRY L. WARREN                        
                                   _____________                                      
                                Appeal No. 2002-0931                                  
                             Application No. 09/037,625                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                   _______________                                    
          Before KIMLIN, OWENS and POTEATE, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-13              
          and 15-25, all of the claims remaining in the present                       
          application.                                                                
               Claim 1 is illustrative:                                               
               1.   A web coating apparatus for continuously coating a                
               coating fluid over a splice on a moving web,                           
               comprising:                                                            







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