Appeal No. 96-0633
Application 07/971,041
figure, all of which are located within the dicing line part
12. A similar feature is shown in figure 3 of this reference
with the additional showing of a second groove 8 in the
insulation layer 5 filled in like manner, all on top of the
filled groove region 7. In contrast, the figure 4 embodiment
does not show that the second groove 8 is filled in the dicing
line region 12 but remains empty. The examiner relies upon
the additional teachings of Asano and Asano and Esquivel to
fill this empty or unfilled second groove 8 in figure 4 of
Ishii as best expressed at the bottom of page 2 of the
Advisory Action, mailed on September 26, 1994.
Of the claims remaining after our reversal of the
rejection of claims 4, 8 and 12, we sustain both rejections
only of claims 1 through 3, 5 through 7, 9 and 10 based upon
the figure 1 and 3 versions of Ishii and finding at the same
time that the additional teachings relied upon by the examiner
in Asano or Esquivel are cumulative as to those already set
forth in Asano as to these claims. Appellants’ brief and
reply brief continue to characterize the figure 1 and
essentially in effect the figure 3 embodiments that respective
first and second grooves 7 and 8 are filled with a layer of
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