The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 31 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte KAICHI FUKUDA __________ Appeal No. 2003-1690 Application 09/635,061 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before OWENS, MOORE and POTEATE, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This appeal is from the refusal to allow claims 24-29 as amended after final rejection. These are all of the claims remaining in the application. THE INVENTION The appellant claims a process for making a thin film transistor comprising depositing a first gate dielectric layer directly onto a semiconductor layer, patterning these layers into 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007