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publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 25
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte SCOTT J. DEBOER
and HUSAM N. AL-SHAREEF
Appeal No. 2001-2540
Application No. 09/240,395
ON BRIEF
Before THOMAS, KRASS and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-21.
The invention concerns the fabrication of semiconductor
devices. More particularly, a transition metal boride film is
used as a diffusion barrier in a gate stack disposed on a gate
dielectric.
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