The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law
journal and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 YUNG-KUAN HSIAO
Appeal No. 2001-0228
Application No. 09/116,612
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, OWENS and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative
Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-
15, all the claims in the present application. Claim 1 is
illustrative:
1. A method for forming a patterned composite stack layer
within a microelectronics fabrication comprising:
providing a substrate;
forming over the substrate a blanket first silicon layer;
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