The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 15
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte RICHARD L. MAHLE, JOHN W. ORCUTT
and RANDALL V. TEKAVEC
Appeal No. 2001-0687
Application No. 09/080,070
ON BRIEF
Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and BARRY, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13-18, all of the pending claims.
The invention is directed to a method of making a ball grid
array package wherein a palladium coating is placed over the
leads and the balls after the balls are secured to the leads.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
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