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          Appeal No. 1997-3415                                                        
          Application No. 08/037,849                                                  


          ordinary skill in the art would have made this modification to              
          Nozue's method.                                                             
               Furthermore, we fail to find that Nozue provides any                   
          reasoning to use an aromatic group attached to each silicon atom            
          of                                                                          
          the polymer in a method of forming a dielectric layer in a                  
          semiconductor wafer.                                                        
               We have not sustained the rejection of claims 16-26 under              
          35 U.S.C. § 103.  Accordingly, Examiner's decision is reversed.             
                                       REVERSED                                       




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