Appeal No. 1998-1408 Page 4
Application No. 08/569,529
a top and sides of said core, said conductors of
said flex circuit being surface bonded to
respective conductors of said printed circuit
board to form a series of windings around said
core.
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
Layton et al. (Layton) 4,308,513 Dec. 29, 1981
Dirks 4,975,671 Dec. 4, 1990
Sato 2-107051 Jan. 16, 1990.
(Japanese Patent Publication)
Claims 1-7 and 15-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Sato in view of Layton and
Dirks. Rather than repeat the arguments of the appellants or
examiner in toto, we refer the reader to the brief and answer
for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
1A copy of the translation prepared by the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office is included and relied upon for this
decision. We will refer to the translation by page number in
this opinion.
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