Appeal No. 1997-3668
Application 08/395,228
question is whether would it have been obvious to use
Murakami’s diffused resistors and terminals in Burger.
Appellants argue:
Appellants’ claims recite diffused regions.
Murakami does not suggest to one of ordinary skill
in the art that these diffused regions should have
an overlap because no overlap is shown. Further,
Burger is directed to the use of a metal material,
not a diffused region. One of ordinary skill in the
art desiring to form diffused regions would follow
the teachings of Murakami and not those of Burger.
The Examiner has failed to demonstrate a contrary
suggestion. (Brief-page 7.)
The Examiner states:
It would have been obvious in view of
Murakami to employ diffused terminals and resistors
and the well-known resistor pattern as disclosed
therein in the device of Burger et al. for the
purpose of eliminating metal on a flexure portion,
where Burger et al. teaches that contacts and the
resistor should be a similar material, col. 2, lines
46-55, and where Murakami disparages the use of
metal contacts. (Answer-page 5.)
We see no “purpose of eliminating metal on a flexure
portion” stated in the cited portion of Burger. However,
Burger
does eliminate metal on a flexure portion and does not have to
look elsewhere, to Murakami, as suggested by the Examiner.
Furthermore, we find the suggested combination incompatible.
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