The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte CHEISAN J. YUE, MOHAMMED A. FATHIMULLA, ERIC E. VOGT, and WILLAIM L. LARSON ____________ Appeal No. 2006-1458 Application No. 10/040,395 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before RUGGIERO, BLANKENSHIP, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 32-40. The claimed invention relates to a method of making a varactor in which a plurality of alternating p- wells and N+ regions are formed in a silicon layer of an SOI structure. Each of a plurality of gate oxides is formed above a corresponding one of the P- wells, and each of a plurality of silicon gates is formed above a corresponding one of the gate oxides. The silicon 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007