Appeal No. 96-2305
Application No. 08/149,627
pattern corresponding to the contacting pattern,
whereby the adhesive spacer is adhered to the
other side of the intermediate sheet.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Kim 5,338,240 Aug. 16,
1994
(filed July 15, 1992)
Claims 1 through 15 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over the admitted prior art in
view of Kim.
Reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1
through 15 and 17.
In the admitted prior art (specification, page 7),
appellants disclose that:
In order to control the gap of the liquid
crystal cell 201 [Figure 13] uniformly, it is a
conventional countermeasure to spray particulates
209 of a fixed particle size at random. Such
particulates 209 are present in the gap and can act
effectively to some degree against deformation in a
compression direction to keep the dimension of the
gap fixed.
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