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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 14
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte YU-KUNG HSIAO, CHIH-KUNG CHANG, FU-TIEN WENG,
CHUNG-SHENG HSIUNG, BII-JUNG CHANG, and KUO-LIANG LU
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Appeal No. 2003-1656
Application No. 09/725,973
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ON BRIEF
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Before GARRIS, WALTZ, and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges.
GARRIS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-5 and 8-12 which are all of the claims remaining in the
application.
The subject matter on appeal relates to an optoelectronic
microelectronic fabrication. With reference to the Appellants’
drawing, the fabrication comprises a substrate 10 having formed
therein a photoactive region 12a-12d, a microlens layer 24a-24d
in registration with the photoactive region, and an infrared filter
layer 18 between the substrate and the microlens layer wherein the
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