Appeal No. 95-1202
Application No. 08/106,144
a third terminal electrode formed so as to
be externally engageable at a second end
edge portion of the insulating substrate
as "reading on" any prior art composite electric circuit, such
as shown by Towers' Figure. 1.6, where a cross-sectional view
representative of the circuit shows terminal electrodes "in
the vicinity" of an "edge portion" defined by the plane
forming the top of an insulating substrate and the plane of
the page.
Suffice it to say, the examiner's interpretation of the
relevant claim language regarding the end edge portion is
unreasonable. This is evident from a cursory review of
appellant's Figures 1 and 2 which show a plan view and a cross
sectional view of appellant's electrical device respectively
and appellant's specification which states that a "first
electrode 12 and a second electrode 13 are provided at the
left end portion (In Fig. 1) of a surface of an insulating
substrete," and a "third electrode 14 is provided at the right
end portion of the same surface." See the specification at
page 5, lines 4 through 9.
As appellant correctly points out, a cross-sectional view
of a prior art device, by definition, cannot show any edge of
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