Appeal No. 2005-0088
Application No. 10/160,629
answer, which we incorporate herein, and we add the following for
emphasis only.
Both Orihara and Ikefuji are directed to a non-contact IC
card, and we totally agree with the examiner that it would have
been obvious for one of ordinary skill in the art to have contact
areas 2a and 2b of Orihara applied directly to the surface of
substrate film 5 of Orihara, as taught by Ikefuji’s application
of coil 12 to an anisotropic adhesive substrate 19b. Appellants’
argument improperly focuses upon substrate 1 of Orihara when, in
fact, the examiner’s rejection cites anisotropic film 5 as the
substrate. Like Orihara, appellants’ specification discloses
that substrate 3 is a film-like material of an anisotropically
conductive hot-melt adhesive film (see page 7, penultimate
paragraph). Hence, we perceive no structural distinction between
the presently claimed substrate film and film 5 of Orihara or,
for that matter, film 19b of Ikefuji. Since film 5 of Orihara
and film 19b of Ikefuji are anisotropically adhesive films, there
is no merit in appellants’ argument that “[t]he substrate [of
Orihara] is not made of an anisotropically conductive material”
(page 8 of brief, second paragraph).
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