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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 33         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                               Ex parte DANIEL SEINSEVIN                              
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                                 Appeal No. 2003-0021                                 
                              Application No. 08/983,383                              
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                                  HEARD: MAY 20, 2003                                 
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          Before COHEN, FRANKFORT, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.            
          COHEN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  


               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 15, 16,           
          and 19 through 37.  These claims constitute all of the claims               
          remaining in the application.                                               


               Appellant’s invention pertains to a method of growing one              
          row of vines so as to avoid frost damage and to promote good                
          fruiting, and to a method of facilitating grape ripening on a row           
          of vines after the vines have been grown to the beginning of                
          ripening without being covered by film.  A basic understanding of           






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