Appeal No. 95-3592
Application 08/109,203
Before THOMAS, FLEMING and LEE, Administrative Patent Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 4, 6 through 10, 17 through 19 and 21
through 23. Claims 5, 20 and 24 are objected to as being
dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable
over the prior art of record if rewritten in independent form
including all of the limitations of the base claim and any
intervening claims.
Appellants' invention relates to an input protection
circuitry for sensitive electrical devices such as integrated
circuitry. In particular, Appellants disclose on page 6 of
the specification that Figure 2 shows an embodiment of the
invention, an N-well isolation resistor 10, having heavily
doped N+ regions 16 and 18 formed within N-well 14 with region
16 being laterally spaced from region 18. Region 16 is elec-
trically connected to an input bond pad 20. Region 18 is
connected to a circuit structure 21 that is to be protected.
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