Appeal No. 96-0616
Application 08/036,249
the art, e.g., like those illustrated on page 6 of appellant's
reply
brief, we are of the opinion that the most obvious arrangement
suggested by Kuwahara is that of providing the outermost leads
as the longest leads.
In view of the above, the decision of the examiner to
reject claim 8 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Kuwahara is
sustained.
With respect to claim 9, appellant argues (reply brief,
pages 6 and 7) that Kuwahara fails to suggest a lead group
composed of nine leads sequentially arranged with the first,
second, eighth and ninth leads being fixed together by the
tape. The examiner's response (first supplemental answer,
page 4) is that electronic components are conventionally made
with different numbers of leads and it would have been obvious
in view of Kuwahara to tape the four outermost leads of a nine
lead component for greater stability as required or needed.
The examiner has failed, however, to explain why it would
have been obvious to tape the four outermost leads for greater
stability. Kuwahara teaches taping the two outermost leads of
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