The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte JOHN B. BOOS ________________ Appeal No. 2000-0465 Application 08/826,110 ________________ ON BRIEF ________________ Before KRASS, FLEMING and LALL Administrative Patent Judges. FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of claims 1-5, 7-11 and 13-16, all the claims pending in the instant application. The instant invention discloses an electronic semiconductor device utilizing a new metallization scheme. Appellant’s Specification, page 3, lines 22-23. As shown in Figure 1, an example of a semiconductor electronic device having an ohmic contract is provided with a contact metallization scheme of Pd/Pt/Au. Specification, page 10, line 23, to page 11, line 1. The device is composed of a semiconductor base composed of onePage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007