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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte FRANCIS G. CELII, ALAN J. KATZ,
YUNG-CHUNG KAO, and THEODORE S. MOISE
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Appeal No. 2000-1801
Application No. 08/667,660
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HEARD: March 19, 2002
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Before CAROFF, LIEBERMAN, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent
Judges.
CAROFF, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 11-16, all the claims remaining in the
appellants’ application.
The claims relate to an apparatus for growing layers on the
surface of a wafer by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).
While we have considered each of the claims separately, claim
11, the sole independent claim, is reproduced below as illustrative
of the subject matter on appeal:
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