Appeal No. 2000-0721 Page 8
Reissue Application No. 08/628,287
Here, the original specification, which includes the
original claims, discloses striations in the surfaces of
external sidewalls. Specifically, "a capacitor contact
opening ha[s] grooved striated sidewalls and thereby defining
female capacitor contact opening striations;" col. 3, ll. 10-
12, "electrically conductive material filling the grooved
striations of the capacitor contact opening thereby defining
striated external conductive material sidewalls within the
capacitor contact opening which are male complementary in
shape to the female capacitor contact opening striations;" id.
at ll. 16-21, and "exposed striated sidewalls ...." Id. at
ll. 30-31.
In view of this disclosure, we are not persuaded that
persons skilled in the art would not recognize in the
disclosure a description of the invention defined by the
claims. The examiner fails to meet his initial burden.
Therefore, we reverse the rejection of claims 5-83 as lacking
a written description. Next, we address the error correctable
by reissue.
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