Appeal No. 1997-2652
Application 08/385,509
viewed as the common ordinary meaning of a printed circuit
board. First, the PTO classification definition is for use by
Examiners to determine only where a patent application should
be classified and is not an ordinary meaning used by the
public for determining a definition. Therefore, we find that
the definition of printed circuit board, as defined in the
Dictionary of Computing, is the ordinary and accustomed
meaning for the term "printed circuit board" as argued by
Appellants.
Turning to Damon, we find that Damon discloses that
the second board shown in figure 3 is a printed circuit board.
See column 4, lines 49 through 66. In addition, we find that
Damon discloses that the first circuit board is a laminated
board made of three conductive planes 12, 13 and 14 separated
by dielectric layers 15 and 16 as shown in figure 1. See
column 3, lines 19 through 39. We further find that Damon
does teach in figure 1 that the panel board 11 has connections
between the terminals of individual components (pins 22) which
are formed from a copper conductor (conductive planes 12, 13,
14) laminated onto a flat supporting sheet of insulating
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