Ex parte TSUKAMOTO - Page 7




          Appeal No. 96-1549                                                          
          Application 08/296,988                                                      


          collected by the grid, Wordeman does not suggest that the p-type            
          layer would be capable, in the absence of the n-type grid, of               
          blocking enough minority carriers to make it feasible to omit the           
          n-type grid.                                                                
               For the foregoing reasons, the rejection of claim 10 under             
          35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Wordeman is reversed.                  
                                     REVERSED                                        



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