Appeal No. 2004-0642
Application No. 09/635,098
coiled conducting wires, a magnetic member, connecting electrodes
and external electrodes (Brief, page 3).1 Representative
independent claim 16 is reproduced below:
16. A chip inductor comprising:
a plurality of conducting wires closely wound in a coiled
manner, each having exposed ends;
a magnetic member in which said plurality of conducting wires
are embedded along a direction in which said magnetic member
extends;
connecting electrodes to connect, in series, said exposed ends
of each of said conducting wires; and
external electrodes which are connected to respective end
portions of said conducting wires.
The examiner relies on the following references as evidence of
obviousness:
Kato et al. (Kato) 5,544,410 Aug. 13, 1996
Sasaki et al. (Sasaki) 06-163272 June 10, 1994
(published Japanese Patent Application)2
Claims 16 and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
unpatentable over Sasaki in view of Kato (Answer, page 3, referring
1We refer to and cite from the “Supplemental Appeal Brief”
dated Mar. 12, 2003, Paper No. 16, which incorporates by
reference the Appeal Brief dated June 24, 2002, Paper No. 13.
2In addition to the English abstract of this document
previously made of record, we rely upon and cite from a “machine
translation” of this document made of record on May 30, 2003.
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