Appeal No. 95-2063
Application 07/965,314
the water content is as high as 14.8% and 29.9% by volume.
Specification, p. 4. We note the description on p. 4 of the
specification that the preferred SOG compositions have a maximum
water content of 8.3% by volume. However, we do not find from
this teachings that those skilled in the art would have
understood that the water content should not exceed 5% by volume,
since 8.3% is greater than the claimed 5%. Nor do we find from
said teaching that those skilled in the art would have understood
that the maximum value could be higher, than 8.3% by volume, but
not greater than 10%. Thus, we do not find that the
specification disclosure conveys, in any manner, that the
appellant was in possession of the now-claimed invention at the
time the application was filed.
Accordingly, Rejection I with respect to claims 20 through
22 is affirmed.
Rejection II
The examiner urges that the claims are incomplete because
“[t]he preamble of claim 12 recites ‘A process for making a
semiconductor device[,]’ yet the claims do not have any positive
processing steps which would result in a semiconductor device.”
(Emphasis in original.) Answer, p. 5. We disagree precisely for
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