Appeal No. 1999-0559
Application No. 08/846,949
include the shallow tank found in the device of JP '654, and
presently claimed, or, likewise, why the skilled artisan would
have been motivated to modify the Figure 2 embodiment of
Japanese '654 to have both source/drain regions to be of the
same conductivity type, or to have modified the Figure 5
embodiment of Japanese '654 to have the low resistance
programmed area within one and only one of the source/drain
regions. We note that appellants' specification discloses at
page 1 that the programming method of Aswell is effective as
long as the substrate is biased at ground but does not take
into account a substrate biased at a negative potential.
In conclusion, based on the foregoing, the examiner's
decision rejecting the appealed claims is reversed.
REVERSED
EDWARD C. KIMLIN )
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CHUNG K. PAK ) BOARD OF PATENT
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