Ex parte ZHENG et al. - Page 4




          Appeal No. 1997-0888                                                        
          Application 08/367,683                                                      

          rejection of claims 11, 22, 33, and 44 and adds Chandler '029               
          and Chandler '936 for the rejection of claims 7, 18, 29, and                
          40.                                                                         
               We refer to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 22) (pages                
          referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the Examiner's                    
          position and to the Brief (Paper No. 21) (pages referred to as              
          "Br__") for Appellants' arguments thereagainst.                             
                                       OPINION                                        
               Appellants argue (Br8):  "Dvorzsak does not teach using a              
          double template to locate a single acquisition target.  If                  
          anything, Dvorzsak teaches the use of two distinct single                   
          templates to locate two distinct acquisition targets . . . ."               
          The Examiner finds that "Dvorzsak teaches using a double                    
          template (Dvorzsak: figures 3A and 3B or figure[s] 3C and 3D)               
          to locate a single acquisition target (Dvorzsak: 10 or 10' in               
          figures 1 and 2)" (EA8).  We think Appellants correctly                     
          summarize the Examiner's position as considering patterns 14                
          and 16 as part of a single acquisition target (the coded                    
          document 10) and signatures 26 and 28 as halves of a double                 
          template.                                                                   



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