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Appeal No. 1998-2103 Page 3
Application No. 08/674,243
Claim 4, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
4. A piezoelectric resonator, comprising:
a piezoelectric substrate;
an electrode including silver provided on a
surface of said piezoelectric substrate, said
electrode having a contact surface adapted to be
contacted by a terminal; and
high fusion point metal provided on said contact
surface of said electrode,
wherein said high fusion point metal comprises
high fusion point fine particles provided on said
contact surface of said electrode.
Besides the appellant‘s admitted prior art (AAPA), the
reference relied on in rejecting the claims follows:
Corwin et al. (Corwin) 3,317,762 May 2,
1967.
Claims 4-10 and 16-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as obvious over AAPA in view of Corwin. Rather than repeat
the arguments of the appellant or examiner in toto, we refer
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