The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication and is not
precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 17
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte FUSEN E. CHEN, FRANK R. BRYANT and GIRISH A. DIXIT
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Appeal No. 1997-3690
Application 08/427,163
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, FLEMING and HECKER, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claim 1-5, 7-13 and 15 through 16. Claims 6 and 14 have been
canceled.
The invention relates to forming a transistor spacer
endpoint structure in an integrated circuit. Independent
claims 1 and 10 are reproduced as follows:
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