Appeal No. 1996-3816 Page 3
Application No. 08/293,331
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a ceramic coated
electronic device. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of representative claim 54, which is
reproduced below.
54. A coated electronic device formed by a method
consisting essentially of:
(A) coating the electronic device with a solution
consisting essentially of a solvent and hydrogen
silsesquioxane resin;
(B) evaporating the solvent to deposit a preceramic
coating on the electronic device; and
(C) heating the preceramic coating to a temperature
of between about 500 up to about 800EC under an inert gas
atmosphere.
The sole reference of record relied upon by the examiner
in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Mine et al. (Mine) 5,370,904 Dec. 06,
1994
Claims 54-56 stand rejected under the judicially created
doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting as being
unpatentable over claims 1-5, 12, and 13 of Mine (U.S. Patent
No. 5,370,904).
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