Appeal No. 1999-0844
Application 08/633,598
levels depicted in Figure 2 which appear to indicate in a general manner that the doping
level of region 10 is uniform and not composed of two “portions” as argued by the
examiner. As such, we are also in agreement with appellants' views expressed in the brief
that the claimed invention has a decreasing opposite conductivity towards the adjacency of
the n-type layer with the p-type layer instead of Watanabe's showings in Figure 5 of two
opposite conductivity types that are adjacent with increasing opposite conductivity toward
their adjacency, which Figure 2 bears out.
In view of the foregoing, we reverse the rejection of independent claim 10 and its
respective dependent claims, 11 and 13 through 16 as being anticipated by Watanabe.
For the same reasons, we reverse the rejection of claims 1 through 3, 5, 10, 11 and
13 through 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 based upon Watanabe in view of appellants'
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