Appeal No. 1998-3071
Application 08/477,054
inter pad spaces. Because Sommerfeldt indicates that his integrated circuit chips may be
mounted in various locations or "chip sites," the spacing between them implicitly is greater
than any space between the pads themselves at least to provide enough space between
the chip sites or the integrated circuit chips themselves.
Since we are unpersuaded that we misapprehended or overlooked appellants’
three enumerated points as set forth in the request for rehearing, we do not change our
views expressed in our February 23, 2001 opinion that the subject matter of independent
claims 1, 15 and 24 was anticipated by Sommerfeldt within 35 U.S.C.
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