Appeal No. 2003-0454 Page 2
Application No. 09/644,734
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to chemical mechanical polishing of substrates
(specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to
the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Hsu 6,200,207 Mar. 13, 2001
Miyashita et al. 6,241,581 June 5, 2001
Claims 1 to 7, 10, 12 to 20, 23, 25 to 37, 45 to 52, 54 to 63 and 65 to 75 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Miyashita.
Claims 11, 24, 38 to 44, 53, 64, 76 and 77 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Miyashita in view of Hsu.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the answer
(Paper No. 7, mailed July 2, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of
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