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not binding precedent of the Board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. 16
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ANTONIUS H. M. HOLTSLAG,
DERK VISSER, PETER COOPS,
and JACOBS P. J. HEEMSKERK
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Appeal No. 2000-1257
Application 08/861,350
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, DIXON and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 11-14 and 17-23.
Representative claim 11 is reproduced below:
11. An optical record carrier having a stack of information
layers at different heights in the record carrier, which
information layers are separated by spacer layers, said record
layer being suitable to be read by means of a focused radiation
beam employing a fixed spherical aberration compensation,
characterized in that the distance between the highest and lowest
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