Appeal No. 2000-1846
Application No. 08/709,879
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Kihara et al. (Kihara) 5,332,648 Jul. 26, 1994
Murata et al. (Murata) EP 0 558 280 Jan. 09, 1993
Appellants’ claimed invention is directed to a method of
enhancing the miscibility of a chemical amplification type resist
film. The method entails adding either one of the claimed
components (c) or a phenol, or a combination of component (c) and
a phenol to a composition comprising an alkali-soluble polymer
and a compound which generates an acid upon exposure to light.
Appealed claims 52-56 and 62-64 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Murata in view of Kihara.
Appellants submit at page 4 of the principal brief that
“Claims 52-56 and 62-64, do not stand or fall together and are
each to be considered separately in view of the separate
arguments for patentability articulated below.” However,
appellants’ brief merely presents a reiteration of the separately
claimed features along with a conclusory remark that “[t]his
aspect in the invention is neither disclosed nor suggested by any
of the cited references” (page 9, of the principal brief, second,
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