Appeal No. 96-1705
Application No. 08/296,269
the distal ends of said conductive fingers fanning
out from said chip and said encapsulating material, and
adapted to connect with signal and voltage lines,
characterized by the coined bonding region on each
of said proximal ends, of said fingers, being separated from
the tip of the proximal end of said fingers by an uncoined
region, and
discrete electrical wire means bonded to the coined
bonding regions on said conductive fingers and said terminals
and electrically connecting said conductors to said terminals.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Pashby et al. (Pashby) 4,862,245 Aug. 29, 1989
Lim 5,164,815 Nov. 17, 1992
(effectively filed Dec. 22,
1989)
Yabe 62-232147 Oct. 12, 1987
(Japanese Kokai)
Tsukide et al. (Tsukide) 63-283053 Nov. 18, 1988
(Japanese Kokai)
Claims 8 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)
as anticipated by the disclosure of Lim or, in the
alternative, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over the
teachings of Lim. Claims 2-6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over the teachings of Pashby in view
of Yabe and Tsukide . 2
2Our understanding of Yabe and Tsukide is based on
translations provided by the Ralph McElroy Translation Company
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