Appeal No. 1996-3194
Application 08/218,802
indicated in the final rejection to contain allowable subject
matter. In response to the filing of the appeal brief, the
examiner has indicated that claims 21-24 now contain allowable
subject matter [answer, page 2]. Therefore, this appeal now
involves only the rejection of claims 1-9.
The disclosed invention pertains to a case or module
for enclosing a semiconductor circuit, such as a surge
protector.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A module comprising:
a semiconductor subassembly including a plurality of
semiconductor components;
a hollow case including first and second case parts,
wherein the first and second case parts encapsulate the
semiconductor subassembly; and,
force applying means for applying force on the
semiconductor assembly to retain the semiconductor components
thereof together, wherein the force applying means and at
least one of the first and second case parts are of unitary
construction.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
DeBalko et al. (DeBalko) 5,175,662 Dec. 29, 1992
Claims 1-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by the disclosure of DeBalko.
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