The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte CHAO-KUN HU, ROBERT ROSENBERG, JUDITH MARIE RUBINO,
CARLOS JUAN SAMBUCETTI, and ANTHONY KENDALL STAMPER
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Appeal No. 2005-0998
Application No. 10/054,605
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ON BRIEF
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Before CAROFF, JEFFREY T. SMITH, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative
Patent Judges.
CAROFF, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1-5, 7-10, 18-22, 24-27 and 35-38, all the
claims now pending in appellants’ involved application.
The appealed claims are directed to a method for forming
conductors having high electromigration resistance by forming a
conductive film of 1-20 nanometers thickness over the upper
surface of a conductor element. We note that in the prior art
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