Appeal No. 97-2422
Application 07/939,720
3A insulation layer 82 is the same layer as 92 in Figure 3B.
Again, in Figure 3A the discussion indicates that insulation
layer 84 is the same layer as insulation 95 in Figure 3B.
Figure 3A and the discussion beginning at column 7, line 37
indicates that an additional separate passivation film 85,
apparently of polyamides as noted at line 46, is finally left
deposited on the driver circuits only and not on the display
elements per se in Figure 3B. (To clarify a comment at page 5 of
the brief, it is noted that the discussion at column 7, lines 46
and 47 should probably read that the insulation films 84 and 95
(rather than 85) are not dissolved in the processing of the
passivation film to be consistent with the rest of the discussion
at columns 6 and 7, as well as the showings in Figures 3A and
3B.)
In any event, the state of the art indicates that there is
no particular distinction between passivation and insulation
layers, that they are considered by name to be equivalent and
used interchangeably in the art and the same materials are used
for the same purposes. As such, there is, within the teachings
of this portion of Misawa and in accordance with the examiner's
reasoning at page 9 of the answer, a passivation layer in the
form of silicon dioxide substantially entirely covering the
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