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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                                     for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15              

                           UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                     
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                                BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                       
                                              AND INTERFERENCES                                                          
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                                          Ex parte JAMES EDWARD CARTER                                                   
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                                                 Appeal No. 2003-0104                                                    
                                               Application No. 09/659,792                                                
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                                                        ON BRIEF                                                         
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              Before FRANKFORT, STAAB, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                           
              NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                         



                                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                                      
                     This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 to 13                  
              and 15.  Claim 14, the only other claim pending in this application, is not rejected.1                     


                     We REVERSE and REMAND.                                                                              



                     1 The rejections of claim 14 raised in the final rejection were withdrawn by the examiner on page 2 
              of the answer.                                                                                             





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