Appeal No. 2001-1700 Page 7
Application No. 09/160,964
during the packaging of the dice of Farnworth in a multi-die
holder, suggestive of a rounding step following the formation
of opening (32, figure 5 and column 3, lines 43-46) of Peng.
Nor do the alleged well known features asserted by the
examiner cure this deficiency. The examiner must provide
specific reasons or suggestions for combining the particular
teachings and disclosures of the applied references. In this
context, the examiner's rejection falls short in not
identifying a convincing and particularized suggestion, reason
or motivation to combine the references or make the proposed
modification in a manner so as to arrive at the claimed
invention. See In re Rouffet, 149 F.3d 1350, 1359, 47 USPQ2d
1453, 1459 (Fed. Cir. 1998).
For the foregoing reasons, we determine that the examiner
has not established a prima facie case of obviousness in view
of the reference evidence.
CONCLUSION
The decision of the examiner to reject claims 1-7 under
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