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          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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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 DOMINGO A. FIGUEREDO                             
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                                Appeal No. 2000-2060                                  
                               Application 08/568,209                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before BARRETT, FLEMING, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent                
          Judges.                                                                     
          FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1-6, 8-14, 16-20 and 22.1                                            
               The invention relates to a drive head and a method for                 
          fabricating a drive head for a thermal ink-jet printhead device.            
          The drive head includes a transistor (32), a heat transducer or a           
          resistor (26) and a multi-functional layer (46) having a first              

               1 Claim 7 was canceled in Paper No. 8, and claims 15 and 21            
          were canceled in Paper No. 12.                                              
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