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was not written for publication and is not
binding precedent of the Board.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.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DAVID A. BEAUCHAINE, TIMOTHY L. BROWN,
SERGEI V. KOVESHNIKOV and ROMONY SAN
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Appeal No. 2005-1139
Application No. 10/410,792
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ON BRIEF
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Before SMITH, GROSS, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the examiner’s rejection of claims 37-40, which constitute all
the claims pending in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a double-side mirror-
polished semiconductor wafer containing extrinsic gettering sites
on a back surface of the wafer. The claims on appeal are
directed to the wafer as made by a specific claimed process.
Representative claim 37 is reproduced as follows:
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