Appeal No. 1998-0411 Page 5
Application No. 08/050,078
surfaces of substrates but to also successively discharge
excess melt into one of the used melt reservoirs in the
context of the process and apparatus, as respectively set
forth in those claims.
Indeed, Unno discloses a horizontally disposed radially
offset substrate (19) in a non-rotating holder in figure 2 and
the examiner has not pointed out where Unno describes the use
or need for any used melt receptacle let alone a used melt
receptacle having multiple reservoirs and disposed as required
in appellants’ claims 4 and 5. Nor does the examiner
adequately explain how the herein claimed subject matter would
have been suggested to one of ordinary skill in the art by
Unno taken together with the non-rotating holder prior art
arrangement depicted in figure 2 of Murakami or the disparate
rotating holder arrangement of figure 1 of that reference. We
note that the figure 1 rotating holder arrangement of Murakami
employs horizontally aligned substrates (25) and an effluent
receptacle (24) that does not include multiple reservoirs for
used melt. Such disclosure hardly suggests a modification of
Unno that would result in the herein claimed invention.
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