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for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DARRELL G. HILL, TIMOTHY S. HENDERSON, WILLIAM U. LIN,
SHOU-KONG FAN, HIN-FAI CHAU, DAMIAN COSTA, and ALI KHATIBZADEH
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Appeal No. 1997-3512
Application No. 08/482,034
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, GROSS, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.
LEVY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 17-23, which are all of the claims
remaining in this application.
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a method of
fabricating a bipolar transistor. Specifically, the step of
providing a material structure includes a base structure (42)
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