Appeal No. 1998-0096
Application No. 08/518,182
claimed.
In combining Fujimoto, Saito (JP4-6841) and Onozaki, the
examiner has failed to recognize that all of the relevant
teachings of the cited references must be considered in
determining what they would have fairly taught one having
ordinary skill in the art. He has picked enough teachings
from Onozaki regarding heat energy and thermocompression
processes, ignoring the fact that Onozaki teaches away from
the use of bump electrodes having a polymer body deformed when
bonded together, and the fact that Onozaki does not teach the
use of heat energy and thermocompression processes for bonding
insulating adhesive. Furthermore, there is no suggestion,
teaching or motivation in the applied prior art that would
have led one of ordinary skill in the art to modify Fujimoto
and Saito (JP4-6841) by employing heat energy and
thermocompression processes for bonding the bonded structure
to arrive at the claimed invention. In our opinion, it is
only through impermissible hindsight analysis that the
examiner has come up with the proposed modification.
Therefore, we do not sustain the obviousness rejection of
claims 16 and 17 based on the combination of Fujimoto and
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