Appeal No. 1997-3444
Application 08/268,728
Before HAIRSTON, BARRETT, and BARRY, Administrative Patent
Judges.
BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 21-31 and 35. Claims 36 and 37
have been withdrawn from consideration as directed to a
non-elected invention.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a semiconductor
device including a bipolar transistor operating based on the
reverse base current (RBC) effect discovered by Appellants to
exist in the bipolar transistor.
Claim 21 is reproduced below.2
21. A semiconductor device comprising:
a bipolar transistor having a base, an emitter, a
collector, a base-emitter junction and a collector-base
junction, said bipolar transistor having a first
operating region such that with a positive base-emitter
voltage V in a first range and a predetermined positive
BE
In claim 21, as amended in Paper No. 36, "V " has been2 BE
miscopied from the amendment of Paper No. 21 as "VBE" in two
places. This should be corrected because the claims will be
printed from this amendment.
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