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          Appeal No. 2006-0132                                                       
          Application No. 09/946,627                                                 
          acknowledged by the appellants (the Reply Brief, page 4 and the            
          Brief, page 11), however, these regulations and practice do not            
          preclude a significant segment of the interested public, e.g.,             
          defense industries, from obtaining copies of the Wanthal document          
          or accessing the information therein.  See also the Response to            
          Remand dated October 12, 2005, pages 1-2.  Even assuming Wanthal,          
          for example, contains “information pertaining to classified                
          contracts or programs,” it can still be distributed to a                   
          significant segment of the interested public after satisfying              
          particular conditions for approval by the Directorate for                  
          Security Review, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense              
          (Public Affairs).4  See Alcon Laboratories, Inc. v. Bausch &               
          Lomb, Inc., 52 USPQ2d 1927, 1931 (N.D. Tex. 1999)(“'[T]he issue            
          [is] whether interested members of the relevant public could               
          obtain the information if they wanted to.'”)(quoting Constant v.           
          Advanced Micro-Devices, Inc., 848 F.2d 1560, 1569, 7 USPQ2d 1057,          
          1062 (Fed. Cir. 1988); Friction Division Products Inc. v. E.I. du          
          Pont de Nemours & Co., 658 F.Supp. 998, 3 USPQ2d 1775, 1781 (D.            
          Del. 1987), further proceedings, 693 F.Supp. 114, 8 USPQ2d 1652            
          (D. Del. 1988), aff’d 883 F.2d 1027, 12 USPQ2d 1575 (Fed. Cir.             
          1989)(unpublished)(“Accessibility to the public interested in the          
                                                                                    
          4 See, e.g., DOD 5220.22-R, C1.1.15 and C1.1.15.1-C1.1.15.4 (Dec. 4, 1985).
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