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                  Appeal No. 2002-1093                                                                                        Page 6                      
                  Application No. 09/288,691                                                                                                              
                  forth what applicants regard as their invention.  Again, however, the examiner does not                                                 
                  rely on adequate reasons or evidence which would support her position but only on a                                                     
                  subjective belief that applicants' claims are incomplete.  Again, that is not enough to                                                 
                  establish that claims 16 through 18 fail to comply with 35 U.S.C. § 112, second                                                         
                  paragraph.                                                                                                                              
                           The examiner's decision rejecting claims 16 through 18 under 35 U.S.C. § 112,                                                  
                  second paragraph, is reversed.                                                                                                          
                                                                    REVERSED                                                                              


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                                                      Sherman D. Winters                           )                                                      
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                                                      William F. Smith                             )                                                      
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