Appeal No. 2002-0928
Application 09/315,251
We observe that this application is stated to be a division of
application Serial Number 09/019,061 which has issued to U.S.
Patent Number 6,025,034. Claim 1 in that patent is directed to a
method for producing a nanostructure by steps which include the
steps recited in appealed claim 1. The method in the patent further
requires adding an organic binder to the liquid medium in which the
nanostructured material is dispersed, a step which is not excluded
by the method of claim 1 here. Additionally, claim 1 of the patent
is specifically directed to spray-drying while claim 1 here is
generic to "injecting the solution directly into the feed of a
thermal spray apparatus" which includes spray-drying.
The nanostructured materials of claim 2 are set forth in claim
3 of the patent. The materials claimed in claims 3 and 4 are set
forth in claim 4 of the patent. The materials claimed in claim 5
are disclosed at column 8, lines 6 through 13 of the patent and are
included by claim 1 of the patent which recites a method
"comprising" various steps. The method of claims 8 through 12 of
this application require two cycles of the process of claim 1
wherein two layers of nanostructured materials are coated on a
substrate. Obviously, claim 1 of the patent may be repeated to
obtain coatings of two or more nanostructured materials on a
substrate. See column 7, line 61 through column 8, line 13 of the
patent.
Notwithstanding the current patent term provisions of 35
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