The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication and is not
binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte RICHARD A. FAUST JR., QING-TANG JIANG
and JIONG-PING LU
Appeal No. 2005-0168
Application No. 10/138,393
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, GARRIS and WARREN, Administrative Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-5, 11
and 13-24. Claims 6-10 and 12 have been allowed by the examiner.
Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. A method for improving adhesion between layers,
comprising:
forming a via in a substrate layer;
forming a barrier layer on the substrate layer in the via;
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