Ex parte ESQUIVEL - Page 1




                    THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                      
          The opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1)              
          was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is                 
          not binding precedent of the Board.                                         
                                                            Paper No. 20              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                            Ex parte AGERICO L. ESQUIVEL                              
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                                Appeal No. 1997-1247                                  
                               Application 08/484,196                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before THOMAS, BARRETT, and LALL, Administrative Patent                     
          Judges.                                                                     
          LALL, Administrative Patent Judge.                                          


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 25                
          to 34, all the other claims having been canceled.                           
               The disclosed invention pertains to an integrated circuit              
          with rows and columns of floating-gate programmable memory                  
          cells having slot trench isolation structures among the memory              
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