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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                     ____________                                     
                      Ex parte SHIGEAKI KOIKE, and YASUO IWASAKI                      
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                                 Appeal No. 1999-0225                                 
                              Application No. 08/563,188                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
                                     ____________                                     
          Before HAIRSTON, KRASS, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges.         
          RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of           
          claims 1-7, which are all of the claims pending in the present              
          application.  An amendment filed January 14, 1998 after final               
          rejection, which did not amend the claims, was approved for entry           
          by the Examiner.                                                            
               The disclosed invention relates to a data recording and                
          reproducing apparatus which includes a tape recording and                   
          reproducing unit and a disc recording and reproducing unit which            
          are integrally assembled together and are directly connected to a           





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