Appeal No. 1998-0765
Application No. 08/451,853
sheets which are then laminated together.
Thick-film capacitor is defined in McGraw-Hill
Dictionary of Science and Technical Terms, Fourth
Ed., 1989, as follows: "A capacitor in a thick-film
circuit, made by successive screen-printing and
firing processes.”
Appellants also argue, id., that,
[i]n contrast to Uchino's thick-film technology,
Applicant claims a microelectronic capacitor on a
semiconductor substrate for an integrated circuit.
Thin-film is defined in McGraw-Hill Dictionary . . .
as follows: "A film a few molecules thick deposited
on a glass, ceramic, or semiconductor substrate to
form a capacitor, resistor, coil, cryotron, or other
circuit component."
Appellants further argue, id. at page 10, that,
Miyasaka does not teach or suggest that it would
be desirable to use the electrodes from laminate
structures taught by Uchino and combine them with
thin-film structures to solve the problems of elect-
rodes for integrated circuit thin-film capacitors.
We agree with the appellants’ position. The examiner has
not convinced us why an artisan would look to Uchino (which
involves a totally different process of thick-film technology)
to combine with Miyasaka (which involves the thin-film
technology) to come up with the invention recited in claim 16
without using
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