Appeal No. 1996-3676
Application No. 08/284,982
application, stand withdrawn from consideration. Claim 1 is
illustrative:1
1. A scanning electromechanical microscope probe
comprising a metal wire having a body and a front end, wherein
the body of the metal wire is covered with an organic thin
film and the organic thin film is a chemical adsorption film
comprising an alkyl group or an alkyl fluoride group bonded to
the body of the metal wire by covalent siloxane bonds, and
wherein the front end of the metal wire is an exposed metal
surface.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Josowicz et al. (Josowicz) 4,959,130 Sep. 25, 1990
Hackh's Chemical Dictionary 611 (Julius Grant ed., 4th ed.,
McGraw-Hill Book Co. n.d.) (Hackh's)
Fu-Ren F. Fan et al. (Fan), 60 Analytical Chemistry no. 8,
751-58 (Apr. 15, 1998)
Appellant's claimed invention is directed to a scanning
electrochemical microscope probe comprising a metal wire that
is covered with an organic thin film of, for example,
trichlorosilane. The film is chemically adsorbed to the metal
wire via covalent siloxane bonds.
1We note that appellant's amendment after final (Paper
No. 18), although stated to be entered by the examiner, has
not been clerically entered. For purposes of this appeal, we
will consider claim 1 as amended in Paper No. 18.
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