Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Step and repeat
Reexamination Certificate
2004-01-29
2008-09-09
Fuller, Rodney E (Department: 2862)
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Step and repeat
C355S077000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07423722
ABSTRACT:
A lithographic apparatus has a mask table adapted to accommodate a mask in at least two positions so that a mask with a pattern area larger than the exposure field can be imaged by first performing an exposure with the mask in the first position and then performing a second exposure with the mask in the second position.
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Translation of Notice of Reasons for Rejection dated Jan. 29, 2008 for Japanese Patent Application No. 2005-020587.
Jansen Albert Johannes Maria
Kuit Jan Jaap
Loopstra Erik Roelof
Schrijver Raymond Laurentius Johannes
ASML Netherlands B.V.
Fuller Rodney E
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw & Pittman LLP
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