Appeal No. 96-0096
Application No. 08/094,794
comes in contact with the substrate with the
expectation that any combination would produce
similar results. The separate mixtures are
eventually mixed into one mixture before contacting
the substrate and therefore, it is the examiner's
position that the manner in which the gases are
supplied would be within the skill of the design
engineer working in this art.
This rejection cannot be sustained for several reasons.
In the first place, the examiner is incorrect in stating
that “Lagendijk's disclosure is generic to all sequences of
feeding in the reactive gases.” This disclosure, in fact, is
limited to a single specific embodiment which is shown in
Figure 1 and described in column 6 wherein the reactive gases
are mixed prior to entry into the furnace or reactor. This
specific embodiment, of course, is completely distinct from
the appellants' claimed process wherein certain reactive gases
are mixed to form first and second gaseous mixtures that are
introduced into the reactor at different locations remote from
the substrate. Indeed, it quite clearly would be impossible
to practice this claimed process via the sole embodiment
specifically disclosed by Lagendijk as is readily apparent
from even a cursory study of patentee's Figure 1 apparatus.
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