Appeal No. 96-3357
Application 08/292,491
132 to meet the limitation of “...the top surface having a
surface mount pad for physical and electrical connection to
the lead frame,...” [Claim 1, lines 5 to 7].
Anticipation under 35 U.S.C. § 102 requires that all
elements of the claimed invention be described in a single
reference. In re Spada, 911 F.2d 705, 708, 15 USPQ2d 1655,
1657 (Fed. Cir. 1990). Here, none of the applied references
meets the limitations discussed above. We, therefore, reverse
the Examiner’s rejection of claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 over
Kuo or Brown. Since, the other independent claim, namely 23
and the dependent claims 2 through 5 contain the same
limitations as claim 1, their rejection under the same ground
is also reversed.
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