Appeal No. 96-0357
Application No. 08/200,850
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 8.
The disclosed invention relates to a single contact for a
semiconductor device that is formed by an n x n array of
flexible conductive balls.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A contact for a semiconductor device, comprising:
a plurality of flexible conductive balls, in an nxn
array, n being a whole number greater than 1, each nxn array
forming a single contact; and
a flattened area on each conductive ball at which said
conductive ball is secured to the semiconductor device contact
area.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Thomas el al. (Thomas) 4,369,458 Jan. 18,
1983
Tsukagoshi et al. (Tsukagoshi)5,001,542 Mar. 19,
1991
Claims 1 and 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
2
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