Appeal No. 1999-1066
Application No. 08/756,440
reasonably convey to one skilled in the art that the inventors,
at the time the application was filed, had possession of the
claimed invention.
Claims 7, 9, 11-19, 21-24 and 28 are rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Hayase in view of
Katou, and various appealed claims are correspondingly rejected
as being unpatentable over these references and further in view
of the other previously mentioned references.
For a complete exposition of the opposing viewpoints
expressed by the appellants and by the examiner concerning the
above noted rejections, we refer to the several principal and
reply briefs and to the several principal and supplemental
answers of record.
OPINION
For the reasons which follow, we cannot sustain any of these
rejections.
The section 112, first paragraph, rejection
According to the examiner, “[t]he addition of the phrase
‘wherein, upon exposure of said composition to light, the acid
generating compound generates acid, which causes a silane at the
end of at least one polyimide precursor to undergo a siloxane
condensation reaction and a subsequent intermolecular
3
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007