Appeal No. 2004-1481
Application No. 09/726,659
flowing through a SOG tube (Brief, page 3). Appellants state that
the claims do not stand or fall together (Brief, page 5) and
presents reasonably specific, substantive reasons for the
patentability of several individual claims (e.g., Brief,
pages 9-13). We consider these claims separately to the extent of
appellants’ individual arguments. See 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(2000).
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A spin-on glass delivery system having a capacitive sensor
to detect gas bubbles in a SOG tube comprising:
a) a spin-on-glass (SOG) tube connected to a SOG tool;
b) a capacitive sensor mounted on said SOG tube wherein
said capacitive sensor detects gas bubbles in SOG flowing
through said SOG tube.
The examiner relies upon the following references as evidence
in support of the rejections on appeal:
Neoh 5,470,604 Nov. 28, 1995
On 6,024,249 Feb. 15, 2000
DC Capacitive Sensors, Technical Data - Series 40, Rechner
Industrie-elektronik GmbH, 3 pages, undated.2
2Appellants do not contest the availability of this document
as prior art. We note that appellants cited this document in the
Information Disclosure Statement dated Jan. 25, 2001, Paper No.
2.
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