The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 12 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte RAYMON F. THOMPSON, ROBERT W. BERNER, GARY L. CURTIS, STEPHEN P. CULLITON and BLAINE G. WRIGHT __________ Appeal No. 2002-1823 Application 09/575,551 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before FRANKFORT, STAAB, and MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judges. MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Raymon F. Thompson et al. appeal from the final rejection of claims 56, 57, 62, 64 and 65, all of the claims pending in the application. THE INVENTION The invention relates to “automated semiconductor wafer processing systems for performing liquid and gaseous processing of . . . semiconductor wafers, data disks, semiconductor 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007