Appeal No. 2000-0806
Application No. 09/016,398
construed to meet the limitation of a carrier base, such base
does not have a CTE matching that of the reinforcement base;
and that if printed circuit board 32 is construed to meet the
limitation of a carrier base, such base does not have
conductors penetrating through it to an opposite second
surface containing external connection terminals.
The Examiner relies on Selna for a teaching of a
printed circuit board structure having vias connected to
external connection terminals on the opposite side of the
board (column 5, line 50 to column 6, line 9). As mentioned
supra, the Examiner argues that it would have been obvious to
combine Dordi and Selna because "it is common practice to
provide vias in PCBs . . . to allow the PCB to be connected to
another PCB," and because "Selna shows just this feature and
it makes an obvious extension to the Dordi device." The
Examiner fails to point to any evidence, whether contained in
Dordi, Selna, or any other prior art reference, that would
have motivated the person having ordinary skill in the art to
replace the PCB of Dordi with that in Selna containing the
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