Appeal No. 1996-0810
Application 08/259,354
Ota does not show the display capacitor in the
drawings, as indicated at column 4, lines 40-42, and
column 5, line 45. The Examiner errs in stating that
figure 3 shows a display capacitor 5; element 5 is the drain
electrode forming the claimed "liquid crystal driving
electrode." Thus, the Examiner errs in relying on the
drawings for a showing that the semiconductor layer 2 does
not extend over the display capacitor. Presumably, part of
the area of electrode 5 will be used for the capacitor,
since it appears that the capacitor must be formed on top of
the transparent electrode instead of below the transparent
electrode as in Appellants' invention.
As Ota and the declaration of Mr. Meyer point out, Ota
discloses that a semiconductor layer is deposited in the
third step, an insulating layer is deposited in the fourth
step, the insulating layer is masked and selectively etched
away in the fifth step, the semiconductor layer is etched
away in the sixth step, a second electrode material of
metallic aluminum or chromium is deposited in the seventh
step, and the second electrode layer is photoetched in the
eight step to form the capacitor electrode (col. 5,
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