Appeal No. 96-1507
Application 08/168,185
the other hand, Kovacs only broadly teaches that the bonding
of the disclosed lid to the base in his invention may be
utilized with a suitable adhesive at column 5, lines 15-20.
Recognizing that the optional teaching of thermosetting
sealants at column 5, lines 29-59 of Schuessler includes
fillers and/or silica would have necessarily provided an
inherent spacing of solid particles between the bonding
surfaces of the cover and the base, claim 1 requires that
there be “at least two spaced apart masses” of this type of
temporary bonding resin disposed between the contacting
bonding surfaces of the cover and the base. The earlier noted
preform would be a single mass rather than the required at
least two masses. Even if we were to consider that there
could be a plurality of separate masses of this temporary
bonding material, following the teachings in Schuessler, there
would be no spacing between the at least two or innumerable
number of separate masses of the temporary resin.
In response to appellant’s arguments in the principal
brief on appeal that two different or distinct bonding resins
are recited, the examiner points out at page 5 of the answer
that this is not what is required by the claim. Such is also
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