Appeal No. 95-3674
Application 08/122,981
or n-type doping in the process of making the nanoporous
material as shown in the optional step 11 in figure 1.
Yokotani starts with a p-type or n-type semiconductor which is
milled to form the small particles. Thus, even if Yokotani
disclosed p-type and n-type nanoporous materials, it does not
produce them by the fabricating p-type and n-type semiconductor
elements from a nanoporous material.
For the reasons stated above, the rejection of claims 7-9
and 12 over Yokotani is reversed. Because claims 10, 11,
and 13 incorporate all of the limitations of claim 7, and
because Hanson does not cure the deficiency of the nanoporous
material in Yokotani, the rejection of claims 10, 11, and 13 is
reversed.
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