Appeal No. 2003-1477
Application No. 09/248,533
OTHER ISSUES
Dependent claim 6 recites that the contactless-mode module
contact zones of parent independent claim 4 are formed of an
electrically conductive material. This material is further
defined in dependent claim 7 as a conductive silver paste,
consistent with the appellants’ specification disclosure. In
dependent claim 8, this material is alternatively defined as
copper. We find no support in the specification disclosure for
this claim 8 feature.
In this regard, the specification clearly teaches depositing
contactless-mode module contact zones by means of a printing
method as required by independent claim 4 and forming these zones
by depositing an electrically conductive material as required by
dependent claim 6 and using as this material a conductive silver
paste as required by dependent claim 7. However, the
specification appears to contain no teaching whatsoever of
depositing these zones by means of a printing method wherein the
electrically conductive material is copper as required by
dependent claim 8. Contrariwise, the appellants in their
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