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2 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD Ex parte MARTIN FREEBORN and VINCE BURKHART Appeal Technology Center 1700 Before BRADLEY R. GARRIS, ROMULO H. DELMENDO, and N. WHITNEY WILSON, Administrative Patent Judges. DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL The Appellants seek our review under 35 U.S.C. 134(a) of a decision of the Primary Examiner to reject claims 1 18, 25, and 26. We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. 6. We REVERSE. 1 According to the Appellants, the real party in interest is Novellus Systems, Inc. (Appeal Brief filed August 28, 2012, hereinafter Br., 3).

3 BACKGROUND The invention relates to a plasma ignition system, which is used in physical vapor deposition (PVD) (Specification, hereinafter Spec., 1). The two independent claims on appeal (namely claims 1 and 11) are reproduced from pages 18 and 21 of the Appeal Brief (Claims App x) as follows: 1. A plasma ignition system comprising: a first voltage supply that selectively supplies a plasma ignition voltage and a plasma maintenance voltage across an adapter ring and a cathode target of a physical vapor deposition (PVD) system; a second voltage supply that selectively supplies an auxiliary plasma ignition voltage across the adapter ring and an anode ring of the PVD system; and a plasma ignition control module that ignites plasma using the plasma ignition voltage and the auxiliary plasma ignition voltage and, after the plasma ignites, supplies the plasma maintenance voltage and ceases supplying the plasma ignition voltage and the auxiliary plasma ignition voltage. 11. A plasma ignition system, comprising: a voltage comparing module that compares a first voltage supplied across a cathode target and an adapter ring of a physical vapor deposition (PVD) system to a voltage threshold; a current comparing module that compares current supplied to the cathode target to a current threshold; and a voltage control module that selectively supplies a second voltage across the adapter ring of the PVD system and an anode ring based on the comparison. 2

4 follows: The Examiner rejected the claims under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as I. Claims 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 10, and 25 as unpatentable over Ding, 2 II. Rozbicki, 3 and Nulman 4 ; and Claims 3, 6, 7, 11 18, and 26 as unpatentable over Ding, Rozbicki, Nulman, and Lantsman. 5 (Examiner s Answer entered October 12, 2012, hereinafter Ans., 2 18.) DISCUSSION Regarding the plasma ignition control module limitations of claim 1, the Examiner posited that Ding s controller 224 would be capable of performing the functions recited in the claim (Ans. 3). According to the Examiner, [i]f a prior art apparatus teaches all of the structural limitations of an apparatus claim, then, a recitation with respect to the manner in which the claimed apparatus is intended to be employed does not differentiate the claimed apparatus from the prior art apparatus (id.) (internal citation omitted). The Examiner relied on a similar rationale to support a finding that the system of the prior art included voltage and current monitors and a controller that would be capable of performing the functions recited in claim 11 (id. at 13). The Appellants contend that the Examiner s position with regard to claim 1 is flawed because the mere identification in the prior art of similar 2 United States Patent Application Publication 2005/ A1 published January 13, United States Patent 6,642,146 B1 issued November 4, United States Patent Application Publication 2002/ A1 published October 10, United States Patent 6,447,655 B2 issued September 10,

5 voltage supplies and a controller is insufficient because the claim specifies that the plasma ignition control module controls the voltage supplies in a particular manner and the Examiner failed to show that the prior art controller is capable of performing the recited functions without further programming (App. Br ). The Appellants advance a similar argument with respect to claim 11 (id. at 15 16). We agree with the Appellants that the Examiner s positions regarding the control module limitations constituted reversible errors. Therefore, we cannot uphold the Examiner s rejections. The Examiner correctly found (Ans. 2 3) that Ding describes a computer-based controller 224 that may be programmed to control the power levels, voltages, currents, and frequencies of the various sources (Figs. 5 and 26; 75). Ding s controller, however, has not been shown to perform the function recited in claim 1 ( ignites plasma using the plasma ignition voltage and the auxiliary plasma ignition voltage and, after the plasma ignites, supplies the plasma maintenance voltage and ceases supplying the plasma ignition voltage and the auxiliary plasma ignition voltage ). Indeed, Ding s controller appears to perform a different function because Ding teaches that variable DC power source 200 negatively biases target 156 to about -400 to -600 VDC with respect to the chamber shield to ignite and maintain the plasma, where a target power of between 1 and 5kW is typically used to ignite the plasma while a power of greater than 10kW is preferred for SIP (self-ionized plasma) sputtering ( 71). We discern no merit in the Examiner s view (Ans. 17) that the functional limitations merely recite the manner in which the claimed apparatus is intended to be employed. Although the manner of using an old 4

6 apparatus in a novel way does not make the old apparatus patentable, 6 that principle has no application to the facts of the current appeal where the Examiner failed to take account of the programming or configuration of the control module as a structural limitation that must be considered. Typhoon Touch Techs., Inc. v. Dell, Inc., 659 F.3d 1376, 1385 (Fed. Cir. 2011). The Examiner s treatment of the functional limitations of claim 11 is similarly flawed because it failed to take account of the structure imparted by the functional limitations. Therefore, we cannot uphold the rejection of claim 11 and the claims dependent thereon. Rejections I and II are reversed. SUMMARY REVERSED cdc 6 See, e.g., In re Schreiber, 128 F.3d 1473, 1477 (Fed. Cir. 1997) (holding that claims for conical dispensing top for popped popcorn are unpatentable over prior art disclosing conical spout for open-ended containers for dispensing oil, which contains all structural limitations recited in the claims). 5

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