Appeal No. 1998-1408 Page 20
Application No. 08/569,529
bottom conductor at 244; if only one set of
conductors were used for sheet or substrate, the
inner conductors could be connected at 244 and then a
top or second sheet with its conductors could be
applied and connected to 240 in applicant's device.
Conductors above and below a printed circuit sheet or
board make it more difficult for the connections to
the conductors below to be made since upper
conductors are already in place when the lower
conductor are connected to form the winding.
(Examiner’s Answer at 5.)
In view of the references’ teaching of printing conductors
only on one side of a flexible substrate and the examiner’s
admission that printing conductors on both sides of a sheet
would impede connections, we are not persuaded that teachings
from the prior art would appear to have suggested the claimed
limitation of “said conductors are printed on one side of said
sheet and ... other elongated conductors printed on the other
side of said sheet ....” The examiner has impermissibly
relied on the appellants’ teachings or suggestions; he has not
established a prima facie case of obviousness. Therefore, we
reverse the rejections of claims 2-4 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a).
Next, and last, we address the obviousness of claims 15-18.
Claims 15-18
The appellants make the following argument.
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