Ex Parte Fukuda - Page 1




          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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                               Ex parte KAICHI FUKUDA                                 
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                                Appeal No. 2003-1690                                  
                               Application 09/635,061                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          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           

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