Appeal No. 1997-2041
Application No. 08/337,131
The prior art relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Hosokawa (Hosokawa `872) JP59-229872 Dec. 24, 1984
Hosokawa (Hosokawa `874) JP59-229874 Dec. 24, 1984
Chen EP 0,373,698 Jun. 20,
1990
Wolf et al. (Wolf), "Silicon Processing For The VLSI ERA,"
Vol. 1, Published by Lattice Press, Sunset Beach, California,
1986, pages 1-5. (hereafter Wolf)2
The following three new references applied by this panel
of the Board in a new ground of rejection infra are:
Guterman et al. (Guterman) 4,317,273 Mar. 2, 1982
Mazzali 5,028,979 Jul. 2, 1991
Woo 5,147,813 Sep. 15, 1992
(effective filing date Aug. 15, 1990)
Rejections
The following rejections are before us for review;
Claims 1-5, 10 and 11 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 (a) as being
unpatentable over Hosokawa (JP59-229872) in view of Chen.
The examiner relied on Wolf in a new ground of rejection presented in2
the Examiner’s Answer mailed May 29, 1996; however, we note that the examiner
failed to list Wolf in the section labeled
“New Prior Art” (section 10) of the Examiner’s Answer.
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