Appeal No. 1998-0129 Page 3
Application No. 08/438,062
Miller et al. (Miller) 5,046,043 Sep. 3. 1991
Koyama et al. (Koyama) "A STACKED CAPACITOR WITH (Ba Sr )TiO
x 1-x 3
FOR 256M DRAM," IEDM, Dec. 1991, pp. 32.1.1-32.1.4.
McMillan et al. (McMillan) "DEPOSITION OF Ba Sr TiO AND SrTiO1-x x 3 3
VIA LIQUID SOURCE CVD (LSCVD) FOR ULSI DRAMS," ISIF
Conference, March, 1992.
Claims 1, 2, 4-7 and 25-27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Miller in view of McMillan.
Claims 1, 2, 4-7 and 25-27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Miller in view of Koyama.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejections, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 11, mailed April 7, 1997) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the appellants’
brief (Paper No. 10, filed February 24, 1997) and reply brief
(Paper No. 12, filed June 9, 1997) for the appellants’
arguments thereagainst. Only those arguments actually made by
the appellants have been considered in this decision.
Arguments which the appellants could have made but chose not
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