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                            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                                                 and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 PHILIP A. JINKS                                                           
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                                                       Appeal No. 2005-1693                                                             
                                                     Application No. 10/192,333                                                         
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                                                             ON BRIEF                                                                   
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                Before HANLON, PAK and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                       
                HANLON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                    
                                                      DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                
                        This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of claims 1                      
                through 11, all of the claims pending in the application.  The claims on appeal are directed to a                       
                method of making a medicinal inhalation device and a component for the device using a thermal                           
                chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process.  Claim 2 is illustrative and reads as follows:                                 
                2.      A method of making a component for a medicinal inhalation device comprising a step of                           
                forming a fluorocarbon (CF2)n-type polymer thin film on a surface of the component, said                                
                forming step comprising the sub-steps of:                                                                               
                        a) exposing a monomer gas to a source of heat having a temperature sufficient to                                
                        pyrolyze the monomer gas, the monomer gas selected to produce upon pyrolysis a source                           
                        of reactive species that includes polymerizable CF2 species and that selectively promotes                       
                        CF2 polymerization, the reactive species source being in the vicinity of the surface on                         
                        which the fluorocarbon polymer film is to be formed; and                                                        
                        b) maintaining the surface substantially at a temperature lower than that of the heat                           
                        source to induce deposition and polymerization of the CF2 species on the surface.                               






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