Appeal No. 1997-2444
Application 08/248,941
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 20-22, which are all of the claims
pending in this application.
BACKGROUND
Appellant’s invention relates to a cathode for a1
thin film electrochemical cell. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim
20, which is reproduced below.
20. A cathode for a thin-film electrochemical cell
comprising an amorphous metal-oxide layer having a submicron
microstructure.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Higashimoto JP 4-206352 July 28, 19922
(Japanese Kokai Patent Application)
Appellant relies on additional references (See
brief,
1A requested change of inventorship for this application
was approved by the examiner. See Paper No. 12, page 2, and
Paper No. 11. However, the appropriate clerical entries to
the record noting the changed inventorship have not, as yet,
been made.
2Our reference to Higashimoto is to the English language
translation of record.
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