Appeal No. 2000-1482 Page 14
Application No. 08/995,706
the H-Square Publication from a first configuration that
accommodates a first size wafer carrier to a second
configuration that accommodates a second size wafer carrier.
To supply this omission in the teachings of the applied prior
art, the examiner made a determination (answer, page 3) that
this difference would have been obvious to an artisan.
However, this determination has not been supported by any
evidence that would have led an artisan to arrive at the
claimed invention.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claim 30 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
Claim 31
We sustain the rejection of claim 31 under 35 U.S.C. §
103.
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