Appeal No. 2006-3351
Application No. 10/011,882
I. Whether the Rejection of Claims 1, 2 and 6 Under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in view
of Johansson et al. (Johansson) in view of Akram is proper?
Appellants proffer two lines of arguments against
this rejection, one based on technical grounds
concerning the teachings of the prior art concerning
isolation trenches in an electronic substrate, and one
based on the propriety of combining the two references,
Johansson and Akram.
DEPTH OF THE TRENCHES
Appellants assert that the applied art fails to
teach or suggest a plurality of isolation transverses
which have a depth that is close to that of the
isolation trenches, as required by independent claim 1.
(Reply Brief, page 5).
Examiner presents Johansson, Figure 4, which
teaches “two series of trenches, one series
perpendicular to the other, which has the same depth
and are arranged in a mesh like pattern. ([Johansson,]
Page 5, Page 9 and Fig.4)” (Answer, Page 3).
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