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              The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was          
              not written for publication and is not precedent of the Board.          

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                  Ex parte STEVEN A. VAN SLYKE and ROBERT G. SPAHN                    
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                                Appeal No. 2004-1962                                  
                             Application No. 09/996,415                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before DELMENDO, JEFFREY T. SMITH and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative           
          Patent Judges.                                                              
          PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.                                   

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the            
          examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-18.                                  
               Claim 1 is representative of the subject matter on appeal              
          and is set forth below, wherein the text in bold is for emphasis            
          only:                                                                       
                    1. A thermal physical vapor deposition                            
               source for vaporizing solid organic materials and                      
               applying a vaporized organic material as a layer                       
               onto a surface of a structure in a chamber at                          







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