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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 12
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DEREK D. CHAPMAN, JAMES C. FLEMING,
RAMANUJ GOSWAMI and CSABA A. KOVACS
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Appeal No. 1999-0056
Application No. 08/734,431
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, GARRIS and WARREN, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-4,
all the claims in the present application. Claim 1 is
illustrative:
1. An optical recording element having a
transparent substrate and on the surface of said substrate, a
recording layer and a light reflecting layer wherein (a) the
-1-
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