Appeal No. 96-0462
Application 08/165,513
normal resistance per square of ITO is around 50 S/square"
(FR3). Kamijo discloses a resistivity of 50 S/G (Table 1,
col. 3). However, since Kamijo is making transparent
electrodes it is expected that the resistivity would be low;
this does not prove that an ITO film with high resistivity was
unknown to those of ordinary skill in the art. The Examiner
states that "[Matsumoto] demonstrates the normal resistivity
per square" (FR4). Matsumoto discloses a transparent
electrode of metal oxide such as ITO which "has a surface
resistivity of not greater than 100 ohm/G, preferably, from 10
to 80 ohm/G" (col. 2, lines 59-60). It is also disclosed that
there are known ITO films with "a resistivity of from 200 to
300 ohm/G" (col. 3, lines 15-16). Again, since Matsumoto is
making transparent electrodes it is expected that the
resistivity would be low; this does not prove that an ITO film
with high resistivity was unknown to those of ordinary skill
in the art. The Examiner has failed to demonstrate that one
of ordinary skill in the art would not have known how to make
ITO thin films with high resistivity. The fact that the
Examiner is personally not aware of ITO films with high
resistivity is not persuasive as to what would have been known
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