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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                     ____________                                     
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                     ____________                                     
                             Ex parte JAMES W. THACKERAY,                             
                                 and GEORGE W. ORSULA                                 
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 1999-0771                                 
                              Application No. 08/640,144                              
                                     ____________                                     
                                       ON BRIEF                                       
                                     ____________                                     
          Before HANLON, PAK, and NAGUMO, Administrative Patent Judges.               
          HANLON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  

               This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the         
          final rejection of claims 38 through 45, all of the claims pending          
          in the application.  The claims on appeal are directed to an                
          antihalation coating.  Claim 38 is illustrative and reads as                
          follows:                                                                    
               38.  An antihalation coating comprising a resin binder and a           
          crosslinker compound capable of causing crosslinking reaction of            
          the resin binder, said resin binder conforming to the formula:              





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