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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               today was not written for publication and is not                       
               binding precedent of the Board.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. 14                   

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                  ________________                                    
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                  ________________                                    
             Ex parte PAUL C. BERG, HARRY N. ETTERS, ROBERT M. FUERST,                
                        TODD A. HESTER and FRED LOVE KREHBIEL                         
                                  ________________                                    
                                Appeal No. 2001-1572                                  
                               Application 08/939,569                                 
                                  ________________                                    
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                  ________________                                    
          Before JERRY SMITH, DIXON and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent            
          Judges.                                                                     
          JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.                                   


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
                                                                                     
          This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134                      
          from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1, 2, 4-9, 11-14 and 16-            
          19, which constitute all the claims remaining in the application.           
          The disclosed invention pertains to a system for mounting                   
          electrical terminals, such as terminal pins, in a flat flexible             
          substrate or flexible circuit.                                              


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