Appeal No. 96-1249
Application 08/270,215
lines 33-35), wherein each sheet can include a plastic
substrate (17 or 31) and a single layer of ITO (20 or 32)
(col. 4, line 19 to col. 5, line 6). While, as shown in
Figures 2 and 3, each of conductive layers 20 and 32 can
alternatively be formed as a metal layer (22 or 35) sandwiched
between dielectric layers (21 and 24, or 34 and 36) (col. 4,
lines 39-52; col. 5, lines 5-18), Kuhlman does not disclose
forming a metal layer on the outside, contact surface of
either conductive layer.
The Mikoshiba patent discloses examples of a "transparent
electroconductive laminate" that is suitable "as an electrode
for a transparent touch panel and an electroluminescent panel"
and various other applications (col. 12, lines 3-10). The
"transparent electroconductive laminate" includes at least a
substrate in the form of a sheet of organic polymer (col. 4,
lines 50-67) and a transparent electroconductive layer, such
as indium oxide (col. 5, lines 50-56). The laminate may also
include, between the substrate and the indium oxide layer, an
adhesion-improving polymeric layer which is formed by
hydrolysis of a organosilicic compound and which may contain
fine particles of a metal or metal compound (col. 6, line 42
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