Appeal No. 2002-0942 Page 2
Application No. 09/553,715
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a printed circuit board with embedded
decoupling capacitance and method for producing same (specification, p. 1). A copy of
the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
Claims 1, 3 and 5 to 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over U.S. Patent No. 5,640,761 to DiStefano et al. (DiStefano).
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the answer
(Paper No. 12, mailed April 4, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support
of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 11, filed March 22, 2002) and reply brief
(Paper No. 13, filed April 26, 2002) for the appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the appellants' specification and claims, to the applied prior art reference, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the examiner. Upon evaluation of
all the evidence before us, it is our conclusion that the evidence adduced by the
examiner is insufficient to establish a prima facie case of obviousness with respect to
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