Ex Parte Jackson et al - Page 15

              Appeal  2007-2532                                                                    
              Application 10/608,791                                                               
              doping.  (Br. at 11.)7  According to Jackson, "[t]ransitions between                 
              detectable memory states in an organic-polymer layer do not imply changes            
              in chemical bond or in organic polymer doping.  Such transitions may result          
              from accumulation of charge, changes in polymer orientations, and from               
              many other changes that do not involve changing chemical bonds or organic-           
              polymer doping."  (Br. at 13.)  Jackson argues further that "it is                   
              accumulation of charge, rather than changes in chemical bonds and changes            
              in organic polymer doping, to which Stasiak explicitly attributes the                
              electronic properties of his memory cell."  (Id.)                                    
                    Jackson does not direct our attention to any definition in the                 
              specification of what is meant by "changes in chemical bonds".  Our review           
              indicates that no special definition has been provided.  We therefore                
              interpret this limitation in the broadest reasonable manner consistent with          
              the disclosure.  As the Examiner has shown via the Gold reference, chemical          
              reactions involve changing at least one chemical bond in a molecule.                 
                    Stasiak, in paragraph 23, teaches that dopants are useful additives to         
              polymers suitable for its invention. In Stasiak's words, dopants are                 
              compounds that promote charge transport via a "one electron oxidation or             
              reduction process between neutral functional groups and their charged                
              derivatives."  Applying the broadest reasonable interpretation of the term           
              "changes in chemical bonds" consistent with the disclosure, we have no               
              difficulty concluding that changes introduced by the dopant materials                
              disclosed by Stasiak change chemical bonds under the influence of some               

                                                                                                  
              7  Jackson does not dispute the Examiner's findings that Stasiak discloses the       
              other limitations of claim 1, and we hold such arguments to have been                
              waived.                                                                              
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