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             The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was         
             not written for publication and is not precedent of the Board.         
                                                            Paper No. 27            
                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                             Ex parte BILLY DEAN ARNOLD                             
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                                Appeal No. 2003-1381                                
                             Application No. 09/577,427                             
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                                      ON BRIEF                                      
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         Before KIMLIM, TIMM and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent                 
         Judges.                                                                    
         PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.                                  

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
                                                                                   
              This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the           
         examiner’s final rejection of claims 23-50.  Claims 1-22 have              
         been cancelled.                                                            
              Claim 23 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal              
         and is set forth below:                                                    
                   23. A nonwoven web composite, comprising:                        
                   a plurality of side-by-side bicomponent multilobal               
              fibers including a higher melting component on a first                
              side, a lower melting component on a second side, and an              
              interface between the higher and lower melting components;            






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