              NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


       United States Court of Appeals
           for the Federal Circuit
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                    IN RE WILLIAM E. ADAMS
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                              2010-1074
                       (Serial No. 10/873, 903)
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 Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Board of
                  Patent Appeals and Interferences.
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                            JUDGMENT
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   LYNN J. ALSTADT, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, argued for appellant.

    JOSEPH G. PICCOLO, Associate Solicitor, Office of the Solicitor,
United States Patent and Trademark Office, of Alexandria, Virginia,
argued for the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark
Office. With him on the brief were RAYMOND T. CHEN, Solicitor, and
KRISTI L.R. SAWERT, Associate Solicitor.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

    PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, MAYER, and PROST, Circuit Judges).

                  AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


_July 21, 20010                    _/s/ Jan Horbaly_________
  Date                             Jan Horbaly
                                   Clerk
