Appeal No. 96-0462
Application 08/165,513
35 U.S.C. § 103
The Examiner relies on Kamijo only for its disclosure of
ITO electrodes having a surface resistivity of about 50 S/G.
Hanyu describes ITO electrodes coated with "short circuit-
preventing layers" of SnO or Sn-Ti oxide (Table 1,
2
cols. 5-6), each of which has a resistance of from 1 S/cm to2
5 2
10 S/cm "in the direction of the layer thickness" (col. 3,
line 7). The Examiner states (FR4): "The 1 MS/square point
is overlapped by the range of the resistance being 1 to
5 2
10 S/cm for a thickness of 10-300 nm." We see that the
thicknesses are taken from claim 3.
Appellants argue that the Examiner's argument makes no
sense because "resistivity and resistance do not correspond to
surface resistivity and are expressed in entirely different
units, and values given for those properties cannot be related
in any way to surface resistivity values" (Br14). The
Examiner asserts that "[t]he surface resistivity and the
resistivity are proportional even if the measurements are of
different characteristics" (FR5). Appellants respond (Br14):
"The Examiner has cited no authority for that speculative
assertion and, indeed, cannot do so. As noted above, there is
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