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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                  for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13           
                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                        
                                    ____________                                      
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                    ____________                                      
                Ex parte TERRY LEE LEASURE, GEORGE McNEIL LATTIMORE,                  
                   ROBERT ANTHONY ROSS, Jr. and GUS WAI YAN YEUNG                     
                                    ____________                                      
                                Appeal No. 2002-1994                                  
                             Application No. 09/364,4491                              
                                    ____________                                      
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before THOMAS, BLANKENSHIP and SAADAT, Administrative Patent                
          Judges.                                                                     
          SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final                 
          rejection of claims 4-8, 11, 14, 15, 17 and 18.  Claims 1-3 and             
          10 have been canceled.  Claims 9, 12, 13, 16, 19-29, which are              
          all the other claims pending in this application, are indicated             
          by the Examiner as being allowable.2                                        
               We affirm.                                                             


               1  Application for patent filed July 30, 1999.                         
               2  See the Examiner’s answer, pages 2 and 9.                           




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