Appeal No. 94-2527
Application 07/816,715
This is a decision on an appeal from the refusal of the examiner to allow claims
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11 through 13 and 16 as amended subsequent to the final rejection. These are all of
the claims remaining in the application.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a superconducting oxide-based
composite material produced by a process comprising the steps of (1) preparing a
powdered mixture of a glass having a vitreous transition temperature T of less than
g
750EK and of certain superconducting oxide crystallites, (2) uniaxially compressing the
powdered mixture at a temperature of between T and T , wherein T is the glass-g x x
crystallization temperature, to thereby produce orientation of the superconducting oxide
crystallites, and (3) subjecting the resulting composite material to an additional
stretching or rolling operation at a temperature between T and T to thereby provideg x
shaping of the composite material. This appealed subject matter is adequately
illustrated by independent claim 11 which reads as follows:
11. A superconducting oxide-based composite material produced by a process
comprising the steps of:
2We observe that appealed claim 13 contains a minor informality which is
deserving of correction. Specifically, the second-recited formula for the
superconducting oxides contains incorrect subscripts for the calcium and copper
substituents. This incorrect formula arose due to the inadvertent presentation of an
inaccurately copied claim 13 in Amendment B filed October 6, 1993 (i.e, Paper No. 10).
The correct formula is shown in the claim 13 “reproduction” which appears in the
appendix of the appellants’ Brief.
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