Appeal No. 1997-2046 Page 4
Application No. 08/059,350
Claim 40, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
40. A planar inductor, comprising:
a planar inductance element comprising a coil
having a plurality of windings, the plurality of
windings all extending in the same plane; and
at least one ferromagnetic layer stacked on said
planar inductance element;
wherein said at least one ferromagnetic layer
comprises a plurality of ferromagnetic sub-layers
stacked directly upon one anther with no intervening
structure between the plurality of sub-layers.
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
Takahashi et al. 4,322,698 Mar. 30,
1982
(Takahashi)
Hasegawa et al. 4,959,631 Sep. 25, 1990
(Hasegawa) (filed Sep. 28, 1988)
Yoshizawa 0 271 657 Jun. 22, 1988
(European Patent Application)
Soohoo, Magnetic Thin Film Inductors for Integrated
Circuit Applications,” IEEE Transactions on
Magnetics, 1803-06 (Nov. 1979)
Claims 40, 46-48, 54-56, 73, 75, and 80 stand rejected
under
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