Appeal No. 2003-1477
Application No. 09/248,533
application.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method of forming
modules on a module tape for use in a dual mode data carrier
which comprises the steps of mounting a plurality of contact-
bound-mode module contact zones on a first side of a carrier
layer and depositing a plurality of contactless-mode module
contact zones on a second side of the carrier layer by means of a
printing method. Further details of this appealed subject matter
are set forth in representative independent claim 4 which reads
as follows:
4. A method of forming modules on a module tape for
use in a dual mode data carrier, each of said modules
comprising a chip having a plurality of
contact-bound-mode terminals and a plurality of
contactless-mode terminals, the method of forming the
modules comprising the steps:
providing a carrier layer of an electrically
insulating material, the carrier layer having a first
side and a second side;
1(...continued)
entry of the aforementioned amendment). In fact, entry of this amendment was
authorized by the examiner in the Advisory Action mailed December 13, 2001.
Although this entry authorization has not been clerically processed, it is
beyond dispute that the claims officially pending and on appeal in this
application are the claims as modified via the December 5, 2001 amendment. It
is here appropriate to point out that this amendment, in presenting the
amended form of independent claim 4, erroneously used the numeral 1 rather
than the numeral 4 (see page 1 of the amendment). It is proper that we ignore
this error in our disposition of this appeal (as the examiner seemingly did in
authorizing entry of the amendment), and the Examining Corps may choose to do
likewise in effectuating amendment entry upon return of this application to
Corps jurisdiction.
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