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               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
               today was not written for publication in a law journal                 
               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                             
                                                               Paper No. 15           


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                         Ex parte SUSAN D. HILL, VICKY SINN,                          
                               and JEAN-FABIEN DUPONT                                 
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2003-0407                                  
                             Application No. 09/550,503                               
                                                                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                     
          Before KIMLIN, GARRIS and LIEBERMAN, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-23.             
          Claims 24-27 have been withdrawn from consideration.  Claim 1 is            
          illustrative:                                                               
               1.  A black and white silver halide motion picture sound               
          recording film comprising a transparent support bearing at least            
          one silver halide emulsion layer and an antihalation layer                  
          comprising filter dye which is incorporated in the form of a                
          solid particle dispersion which is readily solubilized and                  
          removed or decolorized upon standard processing in the D-97                 

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