Appeal 2007-0734
Application 09/908,455
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from a final rejection of
claims 150-175 and 178-181.1 We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6.
Appellants invented methods for forming pattern layers on a substrate
that minimize the trapping of ambient gases during the patterning sequence
(Br. 3). Claim 174, as presented in the Brief, appears below:
174. A method of forming a layer on a substrate, said method
comprising:
disposing a liquid on said substrate as a plurality of spaced-apart
droplets;
contacting said liquid with a patterning area of a template to spread
said liquid in said plurality of spaced-apart droplets such that adjacent
droplets of said plurality of spaced-apart droplets merge together to form a
continuous layer of said liquid over a region of said substrate in
superimposition with said patterning area, with said plurality of spaced-apart
droplets being arranged in a predetermined pattern to minimize trapping of a
gas in said contiguous layer as said droplets merge to form said contiguous
layer; and
solidifying said liquid in said contiguous layer to form a solidified
layer.
The Examiner relies on the following references in rejecting the
appealed subject matter:
Donges US 6,234,379 May 22, 2001
Nebashi US 6,646,662 Nov. 11, 2003
The Examiner has entered the following grounds of rejection:
Claims 150-156, 159-162, 165-171, 174, 175, 178, and 179 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as anticipated by Donges. Claims 159-162, 174,
1 In rendering this decision we have considered Appellants’ arguments
presented in the Brief, filed July 21, 2006.
2
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