Appeal No. 2000-0424
Application 08/760,510
Presumably, the Examiner considers that the conductor layer 46
has a limited width in a direction out of the plane of the
paper, and that it would have been obvious to repeat this
pattern in planes parallel to and spaced from the plane of the
paper, with the BTHs aligned along a lead (conductor layer 34)
extending out of the plane of the paper. This is the only
logical way to get the arrangement of Appellant's Fig. 3. We
do not think the Examiner proposes to repeat the pattern to
the left or right as shown in Appellant's Appendix D, because
this does not result in a plurality of conductors for the
reasons argued by Appellant at Br12. Unfortunately, the
Examiner's failure to question Appellant's interpretation
leaves confusion as to what the Examiner meant.
We assume, for the sake of argument, that it would have
been obvious to repeat the pattern in Fig. 6 in planes
parallel to and spaced from the plane of the paper so as to
create a plurality of plated conductor/wiring/BTHs. (This
modification appears to be based solely on hindsight in view
of Appellant's disclosure, rather than any identified
suggestion in Yasuda or the knowledge of one of ordinary skill
in the art, but we assume the Examiner is correct for the
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