The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication and
is not binding precedent of the Board.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 THOMAS GEBELE, JURGEN HENRICH,
STEFAN BANGERT, JURGEN HONEKAMP, ELISABETH BUDKE,
JURGEN ULRICH and HELMUT GRIMM
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Appeal No. 2004-2379
Application No. 09/710,769
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, WARREN and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 13, 14,
17 and 25-27. Claims 2-6, 11, 12, 15 and 16 have been allowed by the
examiner, while claims 20-23 stand objected to as being dependent upon
a rejected base claim. In addition, claims 7-10, 18, 19, 24 and 28-33
stand withdrawn from consideration.
Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. An electrode arrangement for the plasma-aided
coating of a substrate with a layer, comprising:
at least a first and a second material component
which produces a plasma discharge;
an anode arrangement which defines said first
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