The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte DAHO TAGHEZOUT _____________ Appeal No. 2000-1951 Application No. 08/980,969 ______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before KRASS, GROSS and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-10, all of the pending claims. The invention is directed to a single phase electromechanical transducer especially useful in a horological instrument such as a watch. In particular, the stator of the transducer has a planar structure and the rotor has one permanent, bipolar magnet. The planar structure of the stator is such that the structure defines two stator magnetic 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007