Appeal No. 1998-3003 Page 10
Application No. 08/589,621
ordinary skill in the art would have readily recognized the
"PC board" of Fuentes as including a printed circuit thereon
to which the various components seen in Figure 2 are connected
upon being mounted on the board. 5
Fuentes also reveals, at column 4 lines 63-68, that three
type 675 hearing aid batteries can be used in a sonic fishing
lure having "an overall size of approximately two-to-four
inches." In our view, one of ordinary skill in the art would
have readily recognized that the claimed "miniaturized"
printed circuit board is readable on the PC board of Fuentes.
In view of the above determination, we conclude that
Fuentes does disclose "a miniaturized printed circuit board
with a printed circuit on the circuit board." Thus, the
appellants' argument is not persuasive of error in the
5The Dictionary of Computers, Information Processing &
Telecommunications, Second Edition, (1987) defines "printed
circuit board (PCB)(PC board)" as "an insulating board onto
which a circuit has been printed or etched."
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