CHEUNG et al vs. RITZDORF et al - Page 17




                Interference No. 105,113                                                                                                      

                         invention in sufficient detail that one skilled in the art can clearly conclude that                                 
                         the inventor invented what is claimed.  Lockwood v. Am. Airlines, Inc., 107 F.3d                                     
                         1565, 1572 [41 USPQ2d 1961, 1966] (Fed. Cir.1997); In re Gosteli, 872 F.2d                                           
                         1008, 1012 [10 USPQ2d 1614, 1618] (Fed. Cir.1989). The disclosure as originally                                      
                         filed does not, however, have to provide in haec verba support for the claimed                                       
                         subject matter at issue.  See Fujikawa v. Wattanasin, 93 F.3d 1559, 1570                                             
                         [39 USPQ2d 1895, 1904] (Fed. Cir.1996).                                                                              
                         Ritzdorf's '613 application discloses a number of embodiments of the Ritzdorf invention,                             
                which as noted above is based on the discovery that satisfactory annealing of copper                                          
                metallizations can be achieved using annealing temperatures much lower than the traditional                                   
                annealing temperature of about 400 °C.  This discovery is described in the specification with                                 
                reference to Ritzdorf's Figures 2E and 2F, with Figure 2F showing the structure of Figure 2E                                  
                after chemical mechanical polishing and annealing ('613 specification at 11, ll. 3-18):                                       




















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