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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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 25              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                Ex parte JOHN EDWARD COOK and MURRAY FRANCIS BUSATO                   
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                                Appeal No. 2002-0797                                  
                             Application No. 08/900,977                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before ABRAMS, STAAB, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.               
          STAAB, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final              
          rejection of claims 1-5, 7-22 and 24-35.  Claims 6 and 23, the              
          only other claims currently pending in the application, have been           
          withdrawn from consideration pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.142(b) as not           
          being readable on the elected species.                                      
               Appellants’ invention pertains to an electrically operated             
          fluid flow control valve and a pressure regulator for use in                
          automotive vehicle evaporative emission control systems for the             
          controlled purging of a fuel vapor collection canister to the               






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