Appeal No. 96-1313
Application 08/202,536
e.g., col. 2, lines 30-42. In support of his position that it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to
immerse substrates in the viscous bath of Morgan, the examiner
points to col. 2, lines 5-26 reproduced above. As seen, this
portion of Morgan merely mentions that, in the past,
electroless plating processes were known in which substrates
were immersed in a bath. In my view, this does not establish
that one of ordinary skill in the art would have found it
obvious to immerse a substrate in the viscous bath of Morgan.
As set forth in the passage of Morgan relied upon by the
examiner, there are many considerations one of ordinary skill
in the art faces in deciding how to go about electroless
plating a given substrate including the viscosity of the
electroless plating solution and the method of applying that
solution to the substrate. These two considerations are
related and can not be considered in isolation of each other.
In making this rejection, the examiner has not relied
upon any other evidence beyond Morgan, e.g., references
involved with electroless plating solutions which are applied
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