Appeal No. 97-2028
Application No. 07/954,290
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 422
through 116. In an Amendment After Final (paper number 3
unknown), claims 44, 58, 66, 92, 104 and 116 were amended.
The disclosed invention relates to a ferro-electric liquid
crystal display device.
Claim 42 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
42. A liquid crystal display device driven in a time-
sharing mode, comprising:
a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of
display electrodes spaced apart from each other;
a ferro-electric liquid crystal layer disposed between the
scanning electrodes and the display electrodes such that the
2According to appellants (Brief, page 2), the instant
application is “a reissue application of appellants’ U.S. Patent
No. 4,715,688, the claims of which were canceled as a result of
an adverse decision in Patent Interference No. 102,092.”
3In an Advisory Action (paper number 27), the examiner
indicated that the 35 U.S.C. § 251 rejection of claims 92, 104
and 116, the 35 U.S.C. § 112 rejection of claim 66, and the
objection to claim 58 were overcome by the amendment. In view of
this amendment, and the submission of the Supplemental Reissue
Declaration (paper number 21), we assume that the 35 U.S.C. § 251
rejection of claims 42 through 116 as being based upon a
defective reissue declaration has likewise been overcome by
appellants’ submissions.
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