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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                     ____________                                     
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                     ____________                                     
                    Ex parte REYNOLD B. JOHNSON, KENNETH A. FESLER,                   
                                 and EUGENE W. WEBER                                  
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 1998-2866                                 
                              Application No. 08/548,441                              
                                     ____________                                     
                                       ON BRIEF                                       
                                     ____________                                     
          Before COHEN, STAAB, and BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          COHEN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  

               This appeal is taken from the final rejection of claims 1              
          through 16 (Paper No. 7), all of the claims in the application.             

               The invention before us relates to a keyboard and to a                 
          method of providing character codes to a computer or other data             
          processing device.  A basic understanding of the invention can be           
          gained from a reading of exemplary claims 1, 5, 9, and 13,                  






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