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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 24
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte THOMAS JUSTEL, HANS NIKOL,
and JACQUELINE MERIKHI
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Appeal No. 2003-1932
Application No. 09/436,179
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ON BRIEF
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Before LIEBERMAN, KRATZ and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claim 5, which is the only claim pending in this
application.
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to a coating method for a
luminescent material including the steps of adding a magnesium
salt solution to a luminescent material suspension, increasing
the suspension pH to about 9.5 to precipitate magnesium hydroxide
on the luminescent material, separating magnesium hydroxide
coated luminescent material from the suspension, and calcinating
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