       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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                 IN RE IAN D. SMITH
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                      2012-1344
                (Serial No. 11/890,109)
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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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   JOHN LOUIS CORDANI, Carmody & Torrance LLP, of
New Haven, Connecticut, argued for appellant. Of counsel
was FATIMA LAHNIN.

    MARY L. KELLY, Associate Solicitor, United States
Patent and Trademark Office, of Alexandria, Virginia,
argued for Director of the United States Patent and
Trademark Office. With her on the brief were RAYMOND
T. CHEN, Solicitor, and FRANCES M. LYNCH, Associate
Solicitor.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, LOURIE, and SCHALL, Circuit
Judges).


           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.



                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



November 20, 2012             /s/ Jan Horbaly
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