Appeal No. 97-2486
Application No. 08/308,983
injection molding procedure should be employed. From our
perspective, a combined consideration of Eggers and Stasz
would have fairly suggested to the artisan to utilize a
molding procedure (such as injection molding) when forming the
ceramic non-conductive bodies of Eggers in view of the above-
noted teachings of Stasz.
As to the appellants' contention that Eggers does not
teach "tracing" a conductive path, we initially note that the
appellants on page 13 of the specification broadly refer to
"plated traces 714, 704, 705 for electrical conductivity"
which may be applied by "sputtering or by other suitable
procedures," but does not define these plated or coated traces
as being of any particular width or extent. Viewing Fig. 7 of
the drawing, the traces are depicted as being of significant
width and extent, and the purpose appears to be to simply
provide a coating of electrically conductive material to
conduct electricity from the point where clevis engages the
non-conductive body to the outer end or working surface of
that body. It is thus readily apparent that the appellants
have utilized the terminology "tracing" in a very broad sense.
In the embodiment of 6C, Eggers similarly provides a layer or
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