The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte HIROSHI KUBOTA, KATSUYA TAKEMURA
and TAKAO YOSHIHARA
Appeal No. 2005-0488
Application No. 09/851,274
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, WALTZ and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-4 and
9-20, all the claims pending in the present application. Claim 1
is illustrative:
1. A resist material comprising one or more surfactants
having a fluorine substituent and between 10 and 2000 ppm of a
non-ionic surfactant comprising one or more non-ionic surfactants
having neither a fluorine substituent nor a silicon-containing
substituent.
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