Appeal No. 95-1969
Application 08/024,913
The references of record relied upon as evidence of
obviousness are:
Doubek Jr. et al. (Doubek) 3,909,933 Oct. 7, 1975
Küehn et al. (Küehn) 4,511,421 Apr. 16, 1985
Baxter et al. (Baxter) 4,855,007 Aug. 8, 1989
The examiner has rejected claims 19 through 22 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Doubek in view of Küehn
and Baxter. The details of the examiner’s rejection are found
on pages 3 through 6 of the examiner’s answer.
According to appellants’ brief, we are to consider the
claims as standing or falling together.
OPINION
We have carefully reviewed the rejection on appeal in light
of the arguments of the appellants and the examiner. As a result
of this review, we have determined that the applied prior art
does not establish a prima facie case of obviousness with respect
to the claims on appeal. Therefore, the rejection on appeal is
reversed.
We acknowledge the examiner’s finding that Doubek discloses
a method for transferring and bonding articles such as IC chips
to substrate carriers such as a lead frame. It is important to
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