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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19              
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                     ____________                                     
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                     ____________                                     
                      Ex parte Toshikazu Shiino, Takashi Aoyama,                      
                           Hirofumi Tsuchida and Isamu Hotta                          
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 2004-1013                                 
                              Application No. 09/985,553                              
                                     ____________                                     
                                       ON BRIEF                                       
                                     ____________                                     
          Before ABRAMS, STAAB, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.               
          STAAB, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  

               This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final              
          rejection of claims 1-13, all the claims currently pending in the           
          application.                                                                
               Appellants’ invention pertains to an apparatus (claims 1-12)           
          and method (claim 13) for purifying the exhaust gas of an internal          
          combustion engine.  More particularly, and with reference to                





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