Ex Parte FARNWORTH et al - Page 1




            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            not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the                            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. 22                      
                          UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                    
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                              BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                       
                                         AND INTERFERENCES                                             
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                                   Ex parte WARREN FARNWORTH                                           
                                           and ALAN WOOD                                               
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                                       Appeal No. 2002-1183                                            
                                      Application 08/975,549                                           
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                                              ON BRIEF                                                 
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            Before MCQUADE, NASE, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.                              
            MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                      

                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                             
                  Warren Farnworth et al. appeal from the final rejection of                           
            claims 28 through 42, all of the claims pending in the                                     
            application.                                                                               
                                           THE INVENTION                                               
                  The invention relates to “semiconductor manufacture and more                         
            particularly to a method . . . for manufacturing known good die”                           
            (specification, page 1).  According to the appellants, “[k]nown-                           
            good-die (KGD) is a collective term that connotes unpackaged die                           
            having the same quality and reliability as the equivalent                                  

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