Appeal No. 2004-2226
Application NO. 10/066,421
bond 6a and to its connection surface 4 with a wedge (i.e.,
stitch) bond 6b, and each wire 7 is attached to its connection
surface 4 with a wedge bond 7b and to its conductor path 3 with a
ball bond 7a.
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principles of inherency,
each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ
385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
In the present case, Schmidt does not meet the limitation in
independent claim 1, or the corresponding limitations in
independent claims 8 and 16, requiring a bonding wire to be
attached to a lead with a stitch bond. Schmidt’s bonding wires 7
are attached to their associated leads (conductor paths 3) by
ball bonds 7a.
Thus, Schmidt does not disclose each and every element of
the invention recited in independent claims 1, 8 and 16.
Therefore, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)
rejection of claims 1, 8 and 16, and dependent claims 2, 4
through 7, 9 through 15 and 17 through 21, as being anticipated
by Schmidt.
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