Appeal No. 2001-2043
Application No. 09/044,629
the devices would be effectively prevented from being
displaced from the cells if the trays were subjected to shock
and vibration (column 5, lines 41 through 44).
As clearly evident from the Boardman patent, the patentee
configured the disclosed invertible trays such that no
movement of the semiconductor devices was intended to take
place. On the other hand, appellant's method requires that
die-level carriers or electronic components transition or move
by virtue of the depositing of the carriers or components in
pockets of a first orientation in a first tray and a
depositing of the carriers or components into pockets of a
second tray after the rotation of the first and second trays.
Thus, the Boardman teaching is significantly different from
the method of appellant's claims 9 and 15.
The Soviet Union reference addresses the reorientation of
stepped components (see single figure of drawings) such that
the components are shifted or transferred out of the sockets
of one cassette into the socket of another cassette when a
package of the cassettes is turned around a horizontal axis
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