The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for
publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 11
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KURT H. WEINER
and
PAUL G. CAREY
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Appeal No. 1998-1577
Application No. 08/593,766
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, RUGGIERO, and DIXON, Administrative Patent
Judges.
HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 18.
The disclosed invention relates to a process for
fabricating lightly doped drains (LDD) for MOS transistors.
In the process, a single pulse of laser energy is directed
onto selected regions of a silicon member to produce lightly
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