The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 44 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte PAI-HUNG PAN and NANSENG JENG Appeal No. 2004-0574 Application No. 09/259,145 ON BRIEF Before PAK, OWENS, and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 25, 26, 31-34, 37-40 and 43-49, which are all of the claims pending in the application. THE INVENTION The appellants claim an intermediate structure in the formation of an isolation structure for a semiconductor device, comprising a semiconductor substrate which is encapsulated by aPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007