Appeal 2007-2236
Application 10/991,738
1 The application on appeal was filed on 18 November 2004.
2 The application was published on 09 March 2006 as Publication
3 2006/0051600 A1.
4 Rupich claims benefit of an earlier filing date based on (1) application
5 10/673,307, filed 29 September 2003, which is said to be (2) a division of
6 application 09/855,312, filed 14 May 2001, which is said to be (3) a
7 continuation-in-part of application 09/694,400 filed 23 October 2000.
8 The real party in interest is American Superconductor Corporation.
9 Supp. Appeal Brief 1.
10 The Examiner rejected claims 89-91 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
11 being unpatentable over Gupta and Mizuta.
12 The Examiner has also rejected claims 92-96 as being unpatentable
13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over Gupta, Mizuta and Kobayashi.
14 The following prior art was relied upon by the Examiner.
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16 Name Patent Number Publication Date
17 Kobayashi US 5,304,533 19 Apr. 1994
18 Mizuta EP 0 277 202 B1 19 Apr. 1995
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20 Gupta, Superconducting oxide films with high transition temperature
21 prepared from metal trifluoroacetate precursors, 52 Applied Physics Letters
22 2077-2079 (1988).
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24 Kobayashi, Mizuta and Gupta are prior art under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b).
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26 B. Record on appeal
27 In deciding this appeal, we have considered only the following
28 documents:
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