Appeal No. 97-2488
Application 08/163,202
of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claims 22 and 42, as they appear in the application file (Paper
No. 7). 3
The following rejection is the sole rejection before us
for review.
Claims 22 and 37 through 42 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite.
The full text of the examiner's rejection and response
to the argument presented by appellants appears in the final
rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 8 and 23), while the complete
statement of appellants’ argument can be found in the amended
main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 22 and 24).
In the amended main brief (page 3), appellants indi-
cate that the claims do not stand or fall together, and list
3We refer to the application file for these claims since
the appendix to the brief does not include correct copies there-
of. For example, in claim 22 of the appendix, line 21, --of
dielectric material-- has been omitted after “layer.”
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