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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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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. 21              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                     __________                                       
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                     __________                                       
                   Ex parte ANDREW P. GODBEHERE, STEPHEN WILLIAMS                     
                                 and ROBERT D. SPEAR                                  
                                     __________                                       
                                Appeal No. 2003-0401                                  
                               Application 09/490,954                                 
                                     ___________                                      
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                     ___________                                      
          Before ABRAMS, OWENS and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.                
          OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 15, 16, 27           
          and 33.  Claims 17-26 and 34-36 have been allowed.  Claims 28,              
          29, 31, 32, 37 and 38 stand withdrawn from consideration by the             
          examiner as being directed toward a nonelected invention.                   







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