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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        written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                      
                                    __________                                      
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                    __________                                      
                           Ex parte DAVID EDWARD KOTECKI                            
                                        and                                         
                               KATHERINE LYNN SAENGER                               
                                    __________                                      
                                Appeal No. 2003-1300                                
                            Application No. 09/643,3721                             
                                    ___________                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                      
                                    ___________                                     
         Before KIMLIN, DELMENDO, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative              
         Patent Judges.                                                             
         DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                     

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
              This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from            
         the examiner’s final rejection of claims 37 and 39 through 49,             
         which are all the claims pending in the above-identified                   
                                                                                   
              1  Contrary to the appellants’ statement under the heading            
         “RELATED APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES” (appeal brief filed Sep. 21,           
         2002, paper 12, p. 2), an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 (2002)              
         was filed in the parent application, namely application                    
         09/037,849 filed Mar. 10, 1998.  For completeness, we attach               
         hereto a copy of the decision rendered in the parent                       
         application.                                                               






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