The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board Paper No. 25 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _______________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _______________ Ex parte PATRICK YIN ______________ Appeal No. 1999-0007 Application 08/688,218 _______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before HECKER, LALL and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges. HECKER, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 3 through 6, 9 through 13, 18 and 19, all claims pending in this application. The invention relates to taking an integrated circuit that is designed for one manufacturing process and implementing the circuit in a new manufacturing process. In particular, an 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007