The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte DOMINGO A. FIGUEREDO __________ Appeal No. 2000-2060 Application 08/568,209 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ 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. 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007