The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte MICK BJELOPAVLIC, ALEXIS GRABBE, MICHELE HALER and TRACY M. RAGAN ____________ Appeal No. 2005-1108 Application No. 10/442,900 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before MCQUADE, NASE and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges. MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Mick Bjelopavlic et al. appeal from the final rejection (mailed August 26, 2004) of claims 1 through 8, 10 through 12 and 20 through 25. Claims 13 through 19 stand allowed, and claim 9, the only other claim pending in the application, stands objected to as depending from a rejected base claim. THE INVENTION The invention relates to “wafer carriers for retaining semiconductor wafers during processing operations”Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007