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today was not written for publication and is not binding
precedent of the Board.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 TAKESHI ARAKI,
TERUO NAKANISHI and TOSHIO UMEMURA
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Appeal No. 2005-0931
Application 10/006,679
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ON BRIEF
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Before WARREN, OWENS and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges.
WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.
Decision on Appeal
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the decision of the examiner finally
rejecting claims 1 and 2, all of the claims in the application.1
Claim 1 illustrates appellants’ invention of a thin film magnet, and is representative of
the claims on appeal:
1. A thin film magnet having a microstructure composed of crystalline phases of the
Nd2Fe14B structure type, whose c-axis is oriented in a film-thickness direction, and amorphous
phases, wherein each said Nd2Fe14B type crystalline phase is isolated from the others by the
amorphous phase, and said film is formed by forming a RxM1-x-yBy thin film (in the formula, R is
one (1) or more elements selected from the group consisting of Nd, Pr, Tb, Ho and Dy, M is one
(1) or more elements selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co and Ni and 0.11 α x α 0.15,
1 Claim 3 was withdrawn from consideration by the examiner under 37 CFR § 1.142(b) and
cancelled by appellants subsequent to the final rejection.
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