Appeal No. 1996-0442
Application No. 07/855,442
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner’s refusal to allow claims 1 through 5 and 7 through
22 which are all of the claims remaining in the application.2
THE INVENTION
Appellants’ invention is directed to an optical recording
medium containing a transparent support, with successive
layers of a dielectric layer atop the support, an optical
recording layer atop the dielectric layer, a second dielectric
layer atop the optical recording layer and a second
transparent support atop the second dielectric layer. An
adhesive is provided between the second composite dielectric
layer and the second transparent support. The dielectric
layers are formed of x mol% of aluminum nitride and (100 - x)
mol% of silicon nitride where x is greater than zero and less
2 The rejection of claim 22 has been withdrawn by the examiner. See
Answer, page 3. Hence claim 22 is allowable and not before us for
consideration.
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