Ex Parte Tench et al - Page 1



            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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 D. MORGAN TENCH and JOHN T. WHITE                         
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                                Appeal No. 2005-1680                                  
                             Application No. 10/012,079                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                   _______________                                    
          Before CAROFF, PAK and WARREN, Administrative Patent Judges.                
          CAROFF, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1-23, all the pending claims in appellants'             
          involved application.                                                       
               All the appealed claims are directed to a cell assembly for            
          electroplating a semiconductor wafer.                                       
               Claim 1, the broadest of three independent claims, is                  
          illustrative of the subject matter embraced by the claims on                
          appeal:                                                                     





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