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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 26
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ADAM R. BROWN, DAGOBERT M. DE LEEUW,
EDSKO E. HAVINGA, and COLIN P. JARRETT
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Appeal No. 2000-0834
Application No. 08/798,679
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ON BRIEF
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Before FLEMING, GROSS, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 2 through 4 and 6 through 9, which are all of
the claims pending in this application.
Appellants' invention relates to an electrical memory
element which has between two electrodes a layer of an organic
conjugated compound formed of a soluble polymer or oligomer and a
dopant that is capable by a redox reaction of changing the
oxidation state of the organic compound. Claim 9 is illustrative
of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
9. A write once-read many electrical memory element which
comprises two electrodes between which electrodes a layer of a
material containing an organic conjugated compound is sandwiched,
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