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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