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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              written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20                  
                          UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                  
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                              BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                     
                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                            
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                                       Ex parte UNSOON KIM                                           
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                                      Appeal No. 2001-0836                                           
                                   Application No. 08/991,448                                        
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                                             ON BRIEF                                                
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           Before HAIRSTON, BARRETT, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent                             
           Judges.                                                                                   
           RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                    
                                       DECISION ON APPEAL                                            
                 This is a decision on the appeal from the Examiner’s                                
           rejection of claims 9, 11-14, and 23, which are all of the claims                         
           pending in the present application.  Claims 1-8, 10, and 15-22                            
           have been canceled.                                                                       
                 The claimed invention relates to a flash memory having                              
           plural stacks in the core memory region, with each stack having                           
           at least one polysilicon layer on a tunnel oxide layer and at                             
           least one hemispherical-grained (HSG) layer above the polysilicon                         





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