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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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                             Ex parte LINDA LIJUN ZHONG,                              
                        CONNIE CHUNLING LIU, SHAWN A. MAWIA,                          
                     JEFF DUANE ST. JOHN AND JEFFREY LEE PETREHN                      
                                   ______________                                     
                                Appeal No. 2002-0932                                  
                             Application No. 09/510,533                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before WALTZ, KRATZ, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent                 
          Judges.                                                                     
          WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on an appeal from the primary examiner’s            
          final rejection of claims 1 through 9 and 11 through 19, which              
          are the only claims pending in this application.  We have                   
          jurisdiction pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134.                                   
               According to appellants, the invention is directed to a                
          method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium which                   











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