Appeal No. 1999-1759
Application No. 08/749,614
showing that those skilled in this art would have recognized
that a time optimal path would include one or more regions of
simultaneous radial and rotational movement of the robot arms.
See particularly Paper No. 4) Shiller et al., page 148,
Figures
8 and 9. See also Tada, column 6, lines 22-25, where it is
indicated that the semiconductor wafer (14) "can efficiently
be transferred between the processing chambers by the
combination of the stretching and contracting motion and the
turning motion of the frog leg linkage."
Thus, when the collective teachings of the references
applied by the examiner are considered from the perspective of
one having ordinary skill in the art, we remain of the opinion
that the subject matter of representative independent claim 1
on appeal would have been obvious to a person of ordinary
skill in the art at the time of appellant's invention. In
accordance with appellant's indication in the brief (page 3),
we again note that claims 2 through 4, 6 through 14, 17
through 21, 23 through 31 and 34 through 46 on appeal are
considered to fall with claim 1.
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