Appeal No. 96-1145
Application 08/203,768
§ 103 as being obvious over Yazu in view of Tsuji and Yoshida;
and claims 13-26 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as
being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and
distinctly claim the subject matter which appellants regard as
the invention.
OPINION
We have carefully considered all of the arguments
advanced by appellants and the examiner and agree with
appellants that the aforementioned rejections are not well
founded. Accordingly, we do not sustain these rejections.
Yazu discloses a method for producing diamond crystals in
a synthesizing vessel (10) which is divided by a partition
layer (16) into a pair of synthesizing chambers (10a) and
(10b), one
above the other (col. 4, lines 63-66; col. 5, lines 20-23).
Each synthesizing chamber contains, in order in the downward
direction, a carbon source (12a or 12b), a solvent metal layer
(13a or 13b), and seed crystals (11a or 11b) (col. 5, lines
13-17). The partition layer is made of a material which is
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