Appeal No. 2000-0424
Application 08/760,510
to said . . . conductor[]." The blind hole 48 a "blind
through hole[] (BTH[]) respectively connected to said . . .
wiring[]" by the plating layer 49. The conductor layer 34 is
a "lead," "said lead forming an intermediate layer of said
laminate printed circuit board located below said plated
conductors, connected to said . . . BTH[], and extending in a
direction different from said first direction, . . . wherein
said lead extends toward a second edge of the printed circuit
board," because it can be seen that the conductor layer 34
must extend in a direction in and out of the plane of the
paper in order to connect to anything.
The Examiner states (FR4-5; EA3):
Yasuda discloses the claimed invention except
multiple ones of the conductor, BTH, wirings and the
holes, because he does not show the entire board. It
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the
art, a[t] the time the invention was made, to repeat the
pattern shown in figure 6 of Yasuda to make a complete
board, thereby yielding a plurality of conductors, holes,
BTHs and wirings, because repeating a known pattern on a
circuit board for increased capacity is [sic, was] well
known in the electrical arts.
We think what the Examiner intended is that the
arrangement of Fig. 6 shows one plated conductor/wiring/BTH
pattern, which is equivalent to a cross-section along the axis
of one of the terminals 21 and BTHs 10 in Appellant's Fig. 3A.
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