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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                           written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29                                 


                                            UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                   
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                                                 BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                     
                                                              AND INTERFERENCES                                                                         
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                                                       Ex parte ALFRED E. BENTON                                                                        
                                                                        and                                                                             
                                                             CHESTER D. BEINTEMA                                                                        
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                                                           Appeal No. 1999-1267                                                                         
                                                       Application No. 08/755,150                                                                       
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                                                                     ON BRIEF                                                                           
                                                                _______________                                                                         
                 Before GARRIS, WALTZ, and KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                         
                 GARRIS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                       

                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           
                          This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection                                                                      
                 of claims 1-9, 11-15, 17, 18 and 20-25 which are all of the                                                                            
                 claims remaining in the application.1                                                                                                  


                          1By an apparently inadvertent oversight, the claim                                                                            
                 amendment filed October 21, 1996 has not been clerically                                                                               
                 processed.  This oversight should be rectified upon return of                                                                          
                 the application file to the jurisdiction of the Examining                                                                              
                 Corps.                                                                                                                                 





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