Appeal No. 1998-2878
Application No. 08/539,069
Claims 7 through 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Kinoshita in view of Mitsui.
Reference is made to the final rejection, the briefs and
the answer for the respective positions of the appellant and
the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 7 through 12 is
reversed.
The examiner is of the opinion (final rejection, pages 2
and 3) that Kinoshita discloses all of the claimed structure
except that “Kinoshita does not disclose that the bent
segments of the lead extend in different directions.” In view
of Mitsui’s teaching of “a semiconductor device having a lead
(1) having a first bent segment (11) and a second bent segment
(12),” the examiner concludes (final rejection, page 3) that
“it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in
this art at the time the invention was made to use leads
having bent segments that extend in different directions in
Kinoshita to prevent the mechanical breakdown of the device by
absorbing the expansion and contraction of the lead at the
time of molding as taught by Mitsui” (final rejection, page
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