Ex parte COSTELLO et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 95-0638                                                          
          Application 08/011,094                                                      


          This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134                      
          from the examiner's rejection of claims 1-15, 36-43, 45-49 and              
          74-89.  Claim 44 has been cancelled.  Claims 16-35 and 50-73                
          stand withdrawn from consideration by the examiner as being                 
          directed to a nonelected invention.  An amendment after the first           
          action final rejection in this case was filed on June 28, 1993              
          and was entered by the examiner.  This amendment resulted in the            
          removal of a rejection of claim 1 under the second paragraph of             
          35 U.S.C. § 112.                                                            
          The disclosed invention pertains to the field of power                      
          microwave generating transistor modules and power transistor                
          packages.  These modules and packages generate a substantial                
          amount of heat which limits the density of components which can             
          be interconnected in a given space.  Appellants have discovered             
          that the conventional metallic heat dissipation layers can be               
          replaced by copper layers of a specific thickness which improve             
          the dissipation of heat so that the density of the device and the           
          applied power can be increased without a corresponding increase             
          in the temperature of the device.                                           
          Representative claim 75 is reproduced as follows:                           
               75.  A power transistor package, comprising:                           
               a metallic base member;                                                

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