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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         not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the            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. 14                
                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                                Ex parte RAY HADLEY                                 
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                                Appeal No. 2003-0673                                
                               Application 09/795,307                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                      
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         Before ABRAMS, STAAB, and MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judges.           
         MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
              Ray Hadley appeals from the final rejection of claims 5               
         through 8, all of the claims pending in the application.                   
                                   THE INVENTION                                    
              The invention relates to “a cart with wheels and a handle             
         for transporting recycling bins” (specification, page 1).                  
         Representative claim 8 reads as follows:                                   
              8. A cart and bin assembly comprising:                                
              a cart having a frame with a plurality of holding frame               
         portions each of which is adapted to hold a recycle bin;                   
              each of said plurality of holding frame portions having an            
         opening with sides that extend into the frame of the cart and are          
         slanted inwardly and downwardly,                                           







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