Appeal No. 95-3936
Application 08/135,324
neutralized."
Factors to be considered in determining whether a
disclosure would require "undue" experimentation include (1)
the quantity of experimentation necessary, (2) the amount of
direction or guidance presented, (3) the presence or absence
of working examples, (4) the nature of the invention, (5) the
state of the prior art, (6) the relative skill of the
routineer in the art, (7) the predictability or lack thereof
in the art, and (8) the breadth of the claims. In re Wands,
858 F.2d 731, 737, 8 USPQ2d 1400, 1404 (Fed. Cir. 1988).
Our review of appellants' specification reveals
scant little information concerning criteria for selecting
other "ambients". Appellants describe at page 9, lines 19
through 20, the problem which their invention addresses.
Therein, appellants state that:
If the wafer is left in an open air
environment, the acid neutralizes,
such that it is not an effective
catalyst.
At page 3 of the specification, appellants state that:
The present invention overcomes this problem by
avoiding the effects of the clean room ambient
during the post exposure period.
Subsequently, appellants disclose at page 5, lines 5 and 6
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