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          Appeal NO. 2005-0577                                                        
          Application No. 09/741,237                                                  


          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          written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 VENKATESAN MURALL                               
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                                Appeal No. 2005-0577                                  
                             Application No. 09/741,237                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before KIMLIN, PAK, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judges.          
          PAK, Administrative Patent Judge.                                           


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s refusal to            
          allow claims 1-2, 12, and 14-17, which are all of the claims                
          pending in the above-identified application.                                
               Claims 1 and 12 are representative of the subject matter on            
          appeal and read as follows:                                                 
               1.  A method of making an angled surface on a waveguide,               
          comprising:                                                                 
               creating a substrate having two levels;                                
               depositing an optical core material onto a first side of the           
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