The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 72 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte YOSHIHISA FUJISAKI, YUKIO TAKANO and TSUTOMU ISHIBA ____________ Appeal No. 1998-1660 Application No. 08/108,499 ____________ HEARD: Nov. 14, 2000 ____________ Before RUGGIERO, DIXON, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 11-15, all of the claims pending in the present application. Claims 1-10 have been canceled. The claimed invention relates to a GaAs (gallium arsenide) single crystal in the form of a wafer. The distribution of lattice constants across the surface of thePage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007