Appeal No. 96-3614
Application 08/259,154
Hirai is relied on only for its disclosure of an organic
insulating resin 15 supporting coil 16 (Answer at 5-6), not
for any suggestion of a substrate-insulating layer having a
thickness in the claimed range. Consequently, the 35 U.S.C. §
103 rejection of claims 1 and 3 is reversed.
The rejection of dependent claims 4-6
Claims 4-6, which depend on claim 1 and thus also require
that the substrate-insulating layer have a thickness in the
range of 0.5 Fm - 3 Fm, stand rejected over the references
applied against claim 1 (i.e., Schwarz, Diepers, and Hirai)
further considered with Lazzari and Masud. As neither Lazzari
nor Masud are relied on by the examiner as suggesting a
substrate- insulating layer having a thickness in the claimed
range, the rejection of these claims is also reversed.
The rejection of independent claim 2
Claim 2, which stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 for
unpatentability over Diepers in view of Schwarz and Hirai,
does not call for a substrate-insulating film. Instead, it
recites a magnetic film "directly formed on the electrically
conductive substrate so as to form an equipotential
therebetween" and "an organic insulating resinous film having
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