Appeal No. 1999-0541
Application No. 08/599,436
CONCLUSION
In view of the foregoing, the decision of the Examiner
rejecting claims 5, 7, 13, 15 through 18 and 22 through 26 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
We make the following new ground of rejection for claim
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13 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as anticipated by Levine pursuant to
37 CFR § 1.196(b). We only consider independent claim 13 but
encourage the Examiner to consider other claims for possible
rejections under Levine alone or in combination with other prior
art.
Claim 13 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as anticipated
by Levine. Levine teaches in figures 2 and 3, a field emission
device including a cathode (emitter plate 12) and a face plate
screen (anode plate 40) as recited in Appellants’ claim 13.
Levine specifically teaches an anode plate comprising “a
substrate” as layer 42 and “a conductive layer formed over the
substrate” as layer 46 (col. 5, lines 35-39). Levine further
teaches “phosphors formed on the conductive layer” as regions
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