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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                           for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.                             

                         UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                
                                                 ____________                                                     
                              BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                  
                                           AND INTERFERENCES                                                      
                                                 ____________                                                     
                     Ex parte CHARLES H. HONEYMAN, ELIZABETH A. MORAN,                                            
                  LIBING ZHANG, ANTHONY EDWARD PULLEN, EMILY J. PRATT,                                            
                    KIMBERLY L. HOUDE, MATTHEW A. KING, CRAIG A. HERB,                                            
                                       and RICHARD J. PAOLINI, JR.                                                
                                                 ____________                                                     
                                               Appeal 2007-0217                                                   
                                            Application 10/711,278                                                
                                            Technology Center 1700                                                
                                                 ____________                                                     
                                         Decided: December 15, 2006                                               
                                                 ____________                                                     

                Before EDWARD C. KIMLIN, CHARLES F. WARREN, and                                                   
                CATHERINE TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                     
                KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                              

                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                     
                       This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 8-20, 35 and 37-                   
                42.  Claims 1 and 35 are illustrative:                                                            
                              1.    A process for producing a polymer-coated pigment particle,                    
                which process comprises:                                                                          





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