Appeal No. 1998-1374
Application No. 08/466,562
earlier filed application. Appellants request at page 2 of
their main brief that the appeal from the earlier application
and this application be combined before the Board because the
applications "claim similar subject matter, and the prior art
issues are the same."
Nevertheless, the appeal in appellants' earlier filed
application was decided in a decision mailed on September 28,
1998 (Paper Number 18). Therein, the Board affirmed the
rejection of claims 11 through 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over
the disclosure of Nakatani relied on herein by the examiner to
reject claims 1 through 10 and 21 through 25. In their
decision in said earlier filed application, the Board "was
constrained to reverse the examiner's rejection as to claims
26-30 (claim 29 stands or falls with claim 26)." See page 6 of
Paper Number 18 of said earlier filed application. In response
to the Board's decision, appellants canceled claims 11 through
20 and claims 26 through 30 were allowed and the application
issued as U.S. Patent Number 5,925,443 on July 20, 1999.
The subject matter in the earlier filed application was
directed to multilayered ceramic packages comprising a
substrate and the copper-based paste herein claimed. It is
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