Appeal No. 2001-2039
Application No. 09/110,207
using alumina titania and on Logan for teaching a recessed
electrode configuration and concludes that the combination
benefits from the recess electrodes in a plural electrode
configuration (answer, page 5).
Appellants argue that the Examiner, in relying on Nagasaki
for teaching the first and the second electrodes as shown in
figures 12 and 13, improperly associates some of the plurality of
electrode portions 302 as a first [second] electrode mounted on
ceramic base body 301 (brief, page 10). Appellants further
assert that Nagasaki’s electrode portions 302 are positioned
directly over base body 301 and do not meet the claimed second
electrode over an insulating layer formed over the first
electrode in a recess (brief, pages 10 & 11 and reply brief,
pages 2 & 3). Additionally, Appellants point to lead terminals
308 and 309 which provide a potential from separate power
supplies to electrode portions 302 and resistance heating
elements 307 as being different from the claimed voltage applied
to the first and the second electrodes for electrostatically
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