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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          not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding             
          precedent of the Board.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. 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 a             




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