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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                                 for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16            

                             UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                        
                                                 ____________                                                 
                                 BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                           
                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                 
                                                 ____________                                                 
                                          Ex parte WILLIAM C. DEAN                                            
                                                 ____________                                                 
                                             Appeal No. 2002-0937                                             
                                          Application No. 09/301,985                                          
                                                 ____________                                                 
                                                   ON BRIEF                                                   
                                                 ____________                                                 
            Before FRANKFORT, STAAB and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.                                   
            BAHR, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                



                                            DECISION ON APPEAL                                                
                   This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1-5.            
            Claims 6-8, the only other claims pending in this application, stand withdrawn from               
            further consideration as being directed to a non-elected invention.                               
                   We REVERSE.                                                                                











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