The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 26
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte DARIUS L. CRENSHAW and PROMOD KUMAR
Appeal No. 2001-1384
Application No. 08/726,229
ON BRIEF
Before KRASS, GROSS and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-13. Claims 14-20 have been allowed by the examiner and
do not form part of this appeal.
The invention is directed to a method of fabricating a
dynamic random access memory (DRAM) to increase the capacitance
thereof. The higher capacitance is provided by the fabrication
of a micro-villus pattern, a three-dimensional pattern on the
-1–
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