Appeal No. 2005-2442
Application No. 10/121,284
of precursors and the rejection fails to identify any
suggestion of a mixture [of] one or more cyclic
organosilicon compound, one or more aliphatic
organosilicon compound, one or more hydrocarbons, and
one or more oxidizing gases as recited in claims 1,
20, and 23, and claims dependent thereon.
Brief, pages 11 through 12.
The examiner responds by stating that the examiner is not
fixing any unclear statements within the reference, but rather
deduces what the sentence suggests to one of ordinary skill in
the art. Answer, pages 11 through 12.
We agree with the examiner’s position because the
examiner’s reading of Grill is a reasonable one. We note that
Grill teaches, in Example 4, that a precursor of
trimethylsilane is used as the first precursor, and is used
together with BCHD. See column 8, lines 40 through 41 of Grill.
This supports the examiner’s reading of Grill regarding
“molecules of methylsilanes.” We further note that, according
to appellants’ specification, specific examples of the aliphatic
organosilicon compound include trimethylsilane. See appellants’
specification, page 5, line 12.
It is therefore clear that the use of the trimethylsilane
in Example 4 is not used in the manner as asserted by appellants
on page 12 of the Brief (that the interpretation of the phrase
decamethylcyclopenta-siloxane molecules of methylsilanes is that
the methylsilanes are part of the decamethylcyclopentasiloxane
ring structure).
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