Ex Parte ALIEU 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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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. 17              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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               Ex parte JEROME ALIEU, CHRISTOPHE LAIR and MICHEL HAOND                
                                     __________                                       
                                Appeal No. 2004-0605                                  
                               Application 09/411,129                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before OWENS, DELMENDO, JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent             
          Judges.                                                                     
          OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 13-30,               
          which are all of the claims pending in the application.                     
                                    THE INVENTION                                     
               The appellants claim a process for forming an air-filled               
          region between a pair of conductors of an integrated circuit by             
          depositing a sacrificial layer consisting essentially of                    
          polycrystalline germanium in a region between the conductors and            

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