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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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 DAVID CLARKE POLLOCK, MATTHEW THOMAS SHARKADY,                 
          PAUL EMMETT BREDENBERG, KEVIN LAUREN COTE, RICHARD DANIEL CURLEY,           
                             and JOHN MARSHALL GAFFNEY                                
                                    _____________                                     
                                Appeal No. 2004-2315                                  
                             Application No. 09/348,155                               
                                   ______________                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                   _______________                                    
          Before FRANKFORT, STAAB, and MCQUADE, 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 1-8, all the claims currently pending in the            
          application.                                                                
               Appellants’ invention pertains to an apparatus (claims 1-5)            
          and method (claims 6-8) for transporting signatures from a                  
          printing press and diverting the signatures to either a first               





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