The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte MINORU USUI, TAKAHIRO KATAKURA, FUJIO AKAHANE, KAZUMI KAMOI, SATOSHI SHINADA, YUKIHISA TAKEUCHI, and NOBUO TAKAHASHI ____________ Appeal No. 2000-0166 Application No. 07/809,042 ____________ HEARD: February 5, 2002 ____________ Before RUGGIERO, LALL, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges. LALL, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-3 which constitute all the claims in the application. The disclosed invention is directed to a piezo- electric/electrostrictive film type chip including a ceramic substrate having a spacer plate with a windows-disposed patternPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007