Appeal No. 2003-0295
Application 09/435,324
insulator wall having a top surface above a top surface of the
transducers. Claim 33 is illustrative:
33. A semiconductor transducer comprising:
an array of transducers all formed on a substrate; and
a plurality of walls formed of an insulator between
transducers on the array, each of the walls having a wall top
surface that is above a top surface of the transducers so that
the walls are capable of minimizing the transmission of the
signals generated in or received by one of the transducers in the
array to the other transducers in the array.
THE REFERENCES
Dias 4,992,692 Feb. 12, 1991
Finsterwald et al. (Finsterwald) 6,014,898 Jan. 18, 2000
(effective filing date Jan. 29, 1993)
Barthe et al. (Barthe) 6,049,159 Apr. 11, 2000
(filed Oct. 6, 1997)
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected as follows: claims 33, 34, 43-45,
49, 50, 55 and 56 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)1 as anticipated by
Barthe, claims 39-42, 47, 48 and 51-54 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
obvious over Barthe, and claims 35-38 and 46 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as obvious over Barthe in view of Finsterwald or Dias.
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1 The examiner does not specify the subsection of § 102,
apparently after realizing that § 102(a) in the first office
action (mailed February 15, 2001, paper no. 5, page 2) was
improper. We consider this rejection to be under the proper
subsection of § 102, which is § 102(e).
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