Appeal No. 1996-0810
Application 08/259,354
display capacitor because the semiconductor layer is not
present in the display area" (unnumbered page between EA2
and EA3). The Examiner presents the following new
arguments, which were not contained in the Final Rejection
(unnumbered page between EA2 and EA3 through EA3):
From figures 3,4,5,and [sic] 7 it is evident that the
semiconductor material 2,9 is located at the cross-over
area and transistor area but is not located over the
display capacitor area 5. See figure 3 where the
display capacitor area is delineated by numeral 5. See
also figure 7 where clearly the semiconductor layer 2
does not extend over the display capacitor area which
takes up most of the device space as shown in figure 3
at numeral 5. The semiconductor layer does not extend
over the display capacitor area because the device
would not function as intended if it did. The
semiconductor layer would block light and thus the
display would not display. Appellant's arguments
regarding the process of Ota are unconvincing because
the figures of Ota clearly show that the semiconductor
layer is present at the cross-over area and transistor
area but is not present at the display area. . . .
Light has to be transmittable through the display
capacitor area. It would have been ridiculous to have
engineered an opaque semiconductor layer over the
transparent display capacitor. The device would not
work.
Appellants traverse the Examiner's new points of
arguments in the Reply Brief.
We agree with Appellants that the Examiner's findings
and interpretations of Ota are in error.
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