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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        written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                               Ex parte MARTY G. LEON                                
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                                Appeal No. 1999-2225                                 
                             Application No. 08/815,441                              
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                                      ON BRIEF                                       
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         Before PAK, WARREN, and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges.             
         DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from            
         the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1 through 4, which are             
         all of the claims pending in the above-identified application.              
               The subject matter on appeal relates to a vacuuming assembly          
         for wet and dry vacuums.  Further details of this appealed                  
         subject matter are recited in representative claim 1, the sole              
         independent claim on appeal, reproduced below:                              
                    1.  An improved vacuuming assembly for wet and dry               
               vacuums and for use inside of a vacuum canister, the                  
               assembly comprising the following: a motor chamber in                 
               connection with an induction chamber, said induction                  
               chamber having an hourglass shape having a middle                     
               section, an upper section and a lower section so as to                
               produce a venturi effect, said upper section and said                 
               lower section of large diameter than said middle                      






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