The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 12 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte MAKIKO NAKAMURA, YASUHIRO FUKUDA, YASUYUKI TATARA, YUSUKE HARADA and HIROSHI ONODA ________________ Appeal No. 1999-0542 Application 08/760,557 ________________ ON BRIEF ________________ Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges. JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s rejection of claims 42-57, which constitute all the claims remaining in the application. The disclosed invention pertains to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having a multi-layer -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007