Appeal No. 96-1584
Application 08/066,697
In FIG. 9, Piotrowski discloses a semiconductor structure
having an NPN transistor having an N/N+ junction intersecting an
island insulating layer and a P-type region spaced from the
layer.
Taylor discloses a semiconductor RAM cell having a common
contact region 23 connecting a trench 32 with the N- island
region 22.
THE REJECTIONS UNDER 35 U.S.C. § 103
In its brief at page 12, appellant indicates that
independent claim 23 stands or falls with independent claim 22
and at page 21, appellant indicates that claims 4-6, 8 and 9
stand or fall with the rejection of claim 22, from which they
depend, and that claims 13-15, 17 and 18 stand or fall with the
rejection of claim 23, upon which they depend. At page 26 of the
brief, appellant further indicates that the Board's decision on
the patentability of claims 11, 12 and 16, which depend from
claim 23, stands or falls with the decision on patentability of
claims 2, 3 and 7, respectively, which claims depend from claim
22. Lastly, at page 26 of the brief, appellant indicates that,
whereas dependent claims 20 and 21 further delimit claim 24 in
the same manner that claims 2 and 3 further delimit claim 22, the
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