The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte WENGE YANG, LEWIS SHEN, and MARK CHANG Appeal No. 2001-0607 Application No. 09/244,429 ON BRIEF Before KRASS, FLEMING and LALL, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 18-20 and 22-25. Claims 1-17 have been withdrawn as being directed to a non-elected invention. The invention relates to semiconductor structures. More particularly, the invention relates to etching a multilayered structure for submicron memory devices where the semiconductor -1–Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007