Appeal No. 1996-2094
Application No. 08/302,085
a conductor layer forming at least one signal
transmission path, each having an upper surface and a
periphery;
a first insulator layer, having a first dielectric
constant, selectively formed at each signal path covering
substantially all of the upper surface and the periphery of
each signal transmission path; and
a second insulator layer, having a second dielectric
constant larger than the first dielectric constant and more
adhesiveness than said first insulator layer, surrounding said
first insulator layer.
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 through 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to
particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter
which appellant regards as the invention.
OPINION
We have carefully considered all of the argument advanced
by appellant and the examiner. We agree with the appellant
that the aforementioned rejection is not well founded.
Accordingly, we will not sustain that rejection.
The legal standard for definiteness under the second
paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 is whether a claim reasonably
apprises those of ordinary skill in the art of its scope. In
re Warmerdam, 33 F.3d 1354, 1361, 31 USPQ2d 1754, 1759 (Fed.
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