Appeal No. 96-3889
Application 08/336,956
language, we find that the claim requires that source (116) is
a distinct and separate element from the raised source
contact member (106) and the drain (114) is a distinct and
separate element from the raised drain contact member (108).
Therefore, we find that the Examiner erred in finding that
Yamaguchi's drain (6) shown in Figure 10 reads on both
Appellants' claimed drain (114) and raised drain contact
member (108) and that Yamaguchi's source (5) reads on both
Appellants' claimed source (116) and raised source contact
member (106).
Furthermore, upon a careful review of Yamaguchi, we
fail to find that Yamaguchi teaches raised source and drain
contact members (106, 108) capped with a cap dielectric (70)
having a cap top surface above said gate top surface as
recited in Appellants' claim 11. As shown in Appellants'
Figure 6, reference element (70) is shown as a dielectric
capped over the raised source and drain contact members (106,
108). Turning to Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi cannot provide this
limitation because Yamaguchi does not teach raised source and
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