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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 GARY W. WOODWARD, BRAD B. HECKERMAN and DENNIS A. MEUCHEL          
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 2001-2421                                 
                              Application No. 09/092,5771                             
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
                                     ____________                                     

          Before BARRY, LEVY and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.                
          SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final                 
          rejection of claims 1-17, which are all the claims pending in               
          this application.                                                           
               We reverse.                                                            
                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               Appellants’ invention is directed to lighting systems with             
          both hard wire and fiber optic illumination capabilities for                

               1  Application for patent filed June 5, 1998, which is a continuation- 
          in-part of the Application No. 08/401,717, filed March 10, 1995, now U.S.   
          Patent No. 5,775,896.                                                       





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