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not binding precedent of the Board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. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ISAO ICHIMURA,
FUMISADA MAEDA, KENJI YAMAMOTO,
KIYOSHI OHSATO and TOSHIO WATANABE
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Appeal No. 2001-1936
Application 09/049,478
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, JERRY SMITH, and FLEMING, Administrative Patent
Judges.
THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1-15.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A focus controlling apparatus for focusing a light beam
and positioning the focused light beam onto a signal recording
layer of a signal recording media, comprising:
a light beam focusing means having a numerical aperture of
0.6 or more;
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