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               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
               today was not written for publication in a law journal                 
               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                             
                                                               Paper No. 18           


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                   Ex parte TERRY BRICHENO and JAMES WILSON PARKER                    
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2001-2134                                  
                             Application No. 09/101,276                               
                                                                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                     

          Before THOMAS, KRASS and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges.            
          KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   


               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1-4.                                                                 
               The invention is directed to an assembly for combining the             
          outputs from a group of n single mode optical fibers onto the               
          photosensitive surface of a photodetector.  In order to achieve             
          this, the assembly is comprised of an adiabatically tapered                 

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