Appeal No. 96-0616
Application 08/036,249
evidence in the file to support the argument. Appellant has8
admitted in his specification that it was known prior to his
invention to supply hybrid ICs to an automatic mounting device
by means of a tape in which the hybrid ICs are supported on
the tape by a plurality of interior adjacent leads (pages 1
and 2 and Fig. 1). In order to obtain the benefits of the
invention specifically disclosed by Kuwahara, it is our
opinion that Kuwahara would have fairly suggested to a person
of ordinary skill in the art to make the outermost leads of a
hybrid IC longer than the remaining leads and to secure the
hybrid IC to a strip of backing paper by
attaching the adhesive tape to the backing paper with the
outermost leads held therebetween.
We also disagree with appellant's argument that there
would have been no motivation to arrive at the specific
arrangement
recited in claim 8. While Kuwahara's teaching may well
suggest other arrangements to a person of ordinary skill in
Attorney's arguments in a brief cannot take the place of evidence. In8
re Pearson, 494 F.2d 1399, 1405, 181 USPQ 641, 646 (CCPA 1974).
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