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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 12
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte HUNG-SHENG CHEN and
YOWJUAG W. LIU
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Appeal No. 2001-2212
Application No. 09/019,409
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO, and DIXON, Administrative Patent
Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-3, 6, 7, and 12-20. Claims 4 and 5 have been canceled.
Claims 8-11 stand withdrawn from consideration as being directed to
a non-elected invention.
The claimed invention relates to a process for making a flash
memory core in which at least one tunnel oxide layer is initially
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