Appeal No. 95-0543
Application 08/008,734
chip (layer 7 and/or 8). In this arrangement there are two or
three silver layers, and only one of these layers is between the
carbon and the copper base. Claim 1 only refers to the
connecting layers of silver so that the presence or absence of
other
layers is not relevant to the claimed invention. The “connecting
layers of silver” would be met by the two or three silver layers
of Potter noted above, and the “only one of said connecting
layers” [of silver] would be met by the single silver layer 2 or
16.
Thus, when claim 1 is given its literal interpretation as
required by law, it is seen that the claim does in fact read on
the Potter device when appropriate ones of the gold layers are
replaced by silver layers as suggested within Potter. It is
emphasized that for purposes of reading the claim on Potter, the
chromium and gold layers of Potter are ignored. Only the silver
layers are looked at to meet the recitations of claim 1. We
agree with the examiner that Potter does disclose at least one
relationship of silver layers which would fully meet the
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