The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 14 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte YU-CHIH HUANG, ANNIESON TSENG and MICHAEL LAN __________ Appeal No. 2004-2277 Application No. 09/886,760 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before STAAB, MCQUADE, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges. MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Yu-Chih Huang et al. appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 5, 7, 9 through 11, 13 and 15, all of the claims pending in the application. THE INVENTION The invention relates to “an apparatus and a method for aligning the loading/unloading of a wafer cassette onto/from a loadport by an overhead hoist transport system utilizing laserPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007