The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication and is not
precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 36
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte FUSEN E. CHEN, FU-TAI LIOU and CHE-CHIA WEI
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Appeal No. 1997-3769
Application 08/418,257
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, MARTIN and JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1, 3-11 and 18-28, all of the claims pending in the
application.
The invention pertains to a method for forming a metal
contact in an integrated circuit. More particularly, an
improved interlevel contact is said to be achieved by
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