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               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               and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21           


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                      Ex parte NADIM HADDAD, CHARLES N. ALCORN,                       
                         JONATHAN MAIMON, LEONARD R. ROCKETT                          
                                   and SCOTT DOYLE                                    
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2003-2013                                  
                             Application No. 09/491,230                               
                                                                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                     
          Before KIMLIN, JEFFREY T. SMITH and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative             
          Patent Judges.                                                              
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 6-19.             
          Claim 6 is illustrative:                                                    
          6.   A resistor, comprising:                                                
               a first passivation layer overlying a semiconductor                    
          substrate having a plurality of transistors;                                



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