Appeal No. 95-4966
Application No. 08/072,182
dated Sept. 28, 1994 (Paper No. 10) and as before the examiner
in the Final Rejection dated Dec. 5, 1994 (Paper No. 11).
For the foregoing reasons, the rejection of claims 17 and
20 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, is affirmed.
B. The Rejection under § 103
The method of appealed claim 15 recites three steps to
prepare a composite article with an electrically conducting
surface: (a) providing conductive whisker-like structures on a
substrate wherein the whisker-like structures form an array of
discrete microstructures and have an areal density of 40-
50/square micron and are perpendicular to the substrate; (b)
encapsulating these microstructures to form a layer comprising
encapsulated microstructures; and (c) delaminating said layer
from said substrate to expose a surface on said layer, with
one end of the microstructures being exposed.
The examiner finds that “Perrotta et al. teaches the
basic claimed process . . . of providing filaments (ie.
whisker-like structures) on a substrate; encapsulating the
filaments with an encapsulating material to form a composite
on the substrate; and delaminating the composite from the
substrate.” (Answer, page 4). The examiner also finds that
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