Appeal No. 96-1313
Application 08/202,536
electroless solution on a particular portion of the substrate
are relevant concerns in this art area. It is not clear on
this record that if one were to eliminate the thickener from
the viscous electroless plating solution of Morgan how stable
and useful the remaining composition would be. In other
words, would a bath according to Morgan having the metal
species and additives required by that reference be stable and
applicable by immersion? In my view, Morgan by itself does
not permit one to reasonably answer such questions. Absent a
more fact-based explanation, I do not see that the majority
has satisfied its initial burden of providing reasons of
unpatentability. In re Oetiker, supra.
WILLIAM F. SMITH )
Administrative Patent Judge ) BOARD OF
PATENT
) APPEALS AND
) INTERFERENCES
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