Ex Parte YONEDA et al - Page 3


          Appeal No. 2003-1684                                                        
          Application No. 09/508,080                                                  

                    Q is a single bond or a bivalent linking group;                   
                    R1 is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent C1-16 organic               
               group;                                                                 
                    a is 1 or 2;                                                      
                    b is 0 or 1, and (a+b) is 1 or 2; and                             
                    X1 is a hydrolysable group;                                       
                    wherein a proportion (T1) of a molecule with a                    
               molecular weight of at most 2M in the partial                          
               hydrolysate is less than 70% as calculated from                        
               Formula (A), wherein M is a molecular weight of the                    
               fluorine-containing reactive silane measured by gel                    
               permeation chromatography:                                             
                    T1(%)=[W2/W1]x100            Formula (A);                        
                    wherein                                                           
                    W1 is a total peak area within a molecular weight                 
               range of from 300 to 100000 on a gel permeation                        
               chromatogram of the partial hydrolysate of the                         
               fluorine-containing reactive silane; and                               
                    W2 is a total peak area within a molecular weight                 
               range of from 300 to 2M on a gel permeation                            
               chromatogram of the partial hydrolysate of the                         
               fluorine-containing reactive silane;                                   
                    wherein a proportion (T2) of a molecule with a                    
               molecular weight of at least 6M in the partial                         
               hydrolysate is less than 10% as calculated from                        
               Formula (B):                                                           
                    T2(%)=[W3/W1]x100            Formula (B);                        
                    wherein                                                           
                    W1 is a total peak area within a molecular weight                 
               range of from 300 to 100000 on a gel permeation                        
               chromatogram of the partial hydrolysate of the                         
               fluorine-containing reactive silane; and                               
                    W3 is a total peak area within a molecular weight                 
               range of from 6M to 100000 on a gel permeation                         
               chromatogram of the partial hydrolysate of the                         
               fluorine-containing reactive silane; and                               
                    wherein the partial hydrolysate is obtained by                    
               partial hydrolysis of the fluorine-containing reactive                 
               silane in the presence of water and nitric acid.                       



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