Ex Parte RIEDEL et al - Page 1



               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                         not binding precedent of the Board                           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. 25                   
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                    _______________                                   
                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                    _______________                                   
                                Ex parte MICHAEL RIEDEL                               
                                 and HANS-JURGEN SESTAK                               
                                     ______________                                   
                              Appeal No. 2001-1853                                    
                              Application 09/198,217                                  
                                    _______________                                   
                              HEARD: MAY 21, 2002                                     
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          Before THOMAS, GROSS and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.                
          THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        
                                                                                     
                                   DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
               Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's              
          final rejection of claims 1-19.                                             
               Independent claim 1 is reproduced below:                               
               1.  A piezoelectric bending transducer, comprising:                    
               a substrate of electrically insulating material;                       



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