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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         not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the            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. 30          

                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                                Ex parte ARNE SOLAND                                
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                                Appeal No. 2003-0217                                
                             Application No. 09/284,076                             
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                                      ON BRIEF                                      
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         Before WALTZ, KRATZ, and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges.           
         DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                     


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
              This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134                 
         (2003) from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 10 through            
         15 (final Office action mailed Oct. 17, 2001, paper 22), which             
         are all of the claims pending in the above-identified                      
         application.                                                               
              The subject matter on appeal relates to a method for                  
         operating a process plant including a refining unit having at              
         least one reformer (claims 10-14) and to an apparatus for a                






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