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                         The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not                                                   
                         written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.                                                   
                                                                                                         Paper No. 37                         
                                    UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                 
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                                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                  
                                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                                                     
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                                                       Ex parte YU-LAM HO                                                                     
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                                                      Appeal No. 1998-1069                                                                    
                                                 Application No. 08/259,575                                                                   
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                                                                ON BRIEF                                                                      
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                Before HAIRSTON, BARRETT, and FLEMING, Administrative Patent                                                                  
                Judges.                                                                                                                       
                FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                         



                                                       DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                     
                         This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of                                                             
                claims 54 and 56-61,  all of the claims ending in the present1                                                                                           
                application.  Claims 1-53 and 55 have been canceled.                                                                          
                         The invention relates to a method of fabricating a MOS                                                               
                device (specification, page 4, lines 3-7).  A first well of a                                                                 

                         1At section 4 of the Supplemental Examiner's Answer the                                                              
                Examiner noted that the amendment after final rejection filed                                                                 
                on June 14, 1996, as Paper No. 25, was entered.  As this                                                                      
                amendment canceled claim 55, the rejection at issue thus                                                                      
                includes only  claims 54 and 56-61.                                                                                           





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