Appeal No. 1997-3314
Application 08/266,783
Clabes or Belke.
OPINION
We affirm the rejection of claims 1-4 and 6-12, and
reverse the rejection of claim 13.
Appellants state that the claims are grouped as follows:
1) claims 1-4, 6-10 and 12, 2) claim 11, and 3) claim 13
(brief, page 3). We therefore limit our discussion to claims
11 and 13 and one claim from the other group, i.e., claim 1.
See In re Ochiai, 71 F.3d 1565, 1566 n.2, 37 USPQ2d 1127, 1129
n.2 (Fed. Cir. 1995); 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(1995).
Claim 1
Sallo discloses a process for making flexible electric
circuitry by sputter coating a layer of chromium onto a
polyimide substrate and coating a layer of copper on the
chromium layer (col. 1, lines 1-12; col. 2, lines 53-58; col.
3, lines 59-60). The chromium layer preferably has a
thickness of from 50 to 500D, and a thickness of 50D is
exemplified (col. 3, lines 62-66; col. 4, lines 51-52). The
polyimide is a polyimide “such as” Kapton (col. 3, lines 48-®
50). In our opinion, this indication that other polyimides
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