Appeal No. 96-3997
Application No. 08/173,953
factual basis of the rejection before us. In re Warner, 379
F.2d 1011, 1017, 154 USPQ 173, 178 (CCPA 1967), cert. denied,
389 U.S. 1057 (1968), rehearing denied, 390 U.S. 1000 (1968).
Since we are of the view that the prior art applied by the
Examiner does not support the rejection, we do not sustain the
rejection of independent claims 6, 8, and 9.
With respect to dependent claim 5, the Examiner adds
Chruma to the combination of Kokai 60-239376 and Kokai 56-
36171 solely to meet the “silicon nitride” insulating layer
limitation. Chruma, however, does not overcome the innate
deficiencies of the combination of the Kokai references and,
therefore, we do not sustain the rejection of claim 5 under 35
U.S.C. § 103.
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