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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         not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the            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. 21          

                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                    __________                                      
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                    __________                                      
                  Ex parte THOMAS R. MORELAND and KURT M. TAUSCHER                  
                                    __________                                      
                                Appeal No. 2003-0229                                
                             Application No. 09/768,885                             
                                    ___________                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                      
                                    ___________                                     
         Before HAIRSTON, 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                 
         (2003) from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 13 through            
         23 and 29-32 in the above-identified application (final Office             
         action mailed Sep. 7, 2001, paper 6).  Claims 1 through 12 and             
         24 through 28, which are the only other pending claims, have               










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