Ex Parte BARE et al - Page 10

                Appeal No. 2003-0914                                                                                10                  
                Application No. 09/192,713                                                                                              

                                                             DECISION                                                                   
                The rejection of claims  47 through 54 under the judicially created doctrine of                                         
                obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over the claims of U.S. Patent                                  
                No. 5,837,705 is affirmed.                                                                                              
                The decision of the examiner is affirmed.                                                                               
                       No time period for taking any subsequent action in connection with this appeal may                               
                be extended under 37 CFR § 1.136(a).                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                       
                                                             AFFIRMED                                                                   




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