Ex Parte Araki et al - Page 1






                                       The opinion in support of the decision being entered                                          
                                  today was not written for publication and is not binding                                           
                                  precedent of the Board.                                                                            


                                  UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                          
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                                        BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                           
                                                     AND INTERFERENCES                                                               
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                                                   Ex parte TAKESHI ARAKI,                                                           
                                        TERUO NAKANISHI and TOSHIO UMEMURA                                                           
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                                                      Appeal No. 2005-0931                                                           
                                                      Application 10/006,679                                                         
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                                                            ON BRIEF                                                                 
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               Before WARREN, OWENS and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                      
               WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                  
                                                        Decision on Appeal                                                           
                       This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the decision of the examiner finally                             
               rejecting claims 1 and 2, all of the claims in the application.1                                                      
                       Claim 1 illustrates appellants’ invention of a thin film magnet, and is representative of                     
               the claims on appeal:                                                                                                 
                       1.  A thin film magnet having a microstructure composed of crystalline phases of the                          
               Nd2Fe14B structure type, whose c-axis is oriented in a film-thickness direction, and amorphous                        
               phases, wherein each said Nd2Fe14B type crystalline phase is isolated from the others by the                          
               amorphous phase, and said film is formed by forming a RxM1-x-yBy thin film (in the formula, R is                      
               one (1) or more elements selected from the group consisting of Nd, Pr, Tb, Ho and Dy, M is one                        
               (1) or more elements selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co and Ni and 0.11 α x α 0.15,                         
                                                                                                                                    
               1  Claim 3 was withdrawn from consideration by the examiner under 37 CFR § 1.142(b) and                               
               cancelled by appellants subsequent to the final rejection.                                                            

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