The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 34 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte THOMAS A. FIGURA __________ Appeal No. 2002-0677 Application 09/257,899 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before GARRIS, OWENS and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 18-25, 28, 32 and 46-50, which are all of the claims remaining in the application. THE INVENTION The appellant’s claimed invention is directed toward a method for forming a roughened surface on a polysilicon layer of a capacitor. Claim 18 is illustrative: 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007