Appeal No. 1996-0810
Application 08/259,354
Before BARRETT, FLEMING, and HECKER, Administrative Patent
Judges.
BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 44-60 and 63-68. Claims 61
and 62 were indicated in the Examiner's Answer to be
objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim,
but as being allowable if rewritten in independent form.
Appellants' Supplemental Amendment After Final Rejection
(Paper No. 26) putting claims 61 and 62 in independent form
as claims 69 and 70 has been entered and claims 69 and 70
are noted to be allowable (Paper No. 27).
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a liquid crystal
display device and, in particular, to a structure to prevent
line fault damage at the intersection between the source
lines and gate lines which could be caused by, for example,
static electricity. The structure includes first and second
layers of electrically non-conductive material between the
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