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          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                   publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                                Ex parte IH-CHIN CHEN                                 
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                                Appeal No. 1998-2884                                  
                             Application No. 08/495,960                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO, LEVY, Administrative Patent                   
          Judges                                                                      
          RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   


               This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection              
          of claims 13-19, 21-26, and 28, which are the only claims                   
          remaining in the application.                                               
               The disclosed invention relates to semiconductor                       
          fabrication processes and particularly to a method of forming               
          a trench isolation structure in a stack trench capacitor                    
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