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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                                    for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                                                   
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                               BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                     
                                             AND INTERFERENCES                                                        
                                                    ____________                                                      
                                  Ex parte MILTON C. SHAW and AMITABH VYAS                                            
                                                    ____________                                                      
                                                Appeal No. 2003-1657                                                  
                                              Application No. 09/554,319                                              
                                                    ____________                                                      
                                                      ON BRIEF                                                        
                                                    ____________                                                      
             Before STAAB, McQUADE, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                           
             NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                       



                                               DECISION ON APPEAL                                                     
                    This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's non-final rejection (Paper No.                   
             10, mailed September 10, 2002) of claims 2 to 5, 7 to 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18 to 23, 25,                   
             26, 29, 30 and 35.  Claims 6, 10, 11, 17, 24, 27, 28 and 31, the only other claims                       
             pending in this application, have been objected to as depending from a non-allowed                       
             claim.                                                                                                   


                    We REVERSE.                                                                                       





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