Ex parte Schulz

Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

Nov 24, 1999

08305588 (B.P.A.I. Nov. 24, 1999)

Application for patent filed September 14, 1994. 1
THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION
The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today (1) was not written for publication in a law
journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the
Board.
Paper No. 16
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DAVID A. SCHULZ
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Appeal No. 1997-0842
Application No. 08/305,5881
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ON BRIEF
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Before PAK, OWENS and KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judges.
PAK, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 8 through 12 which are all of the claims
remaining in the application.
Claim 11 is representative of the subject matter on
appeal and reads as follows:
Appeal No. 1997-0842
Application No. 08/305,588
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11. In a superconducting composite comprising a
graphitic, pitch-based carbon fiber having a tensile strength
greater than about 350 kpsi tensile strength and a thermal
conductivity of at least 900 watts/m/