Appeal No. 1997-3979 Application No. 08/586,365 otherwise that may be afforded by the written description contained in the applicant's specification). In our view, the term "semiconductor device" is broad enough to read on a device containing a first integrated circuit chip which contains bipolar transistors and a second integrated circuit chip which contains MOS transistors. See TechEncylopedia at http://www.techweb.com/encylopedia/defineterm?semiconductor +device (June 30, 2000) (copy attached), which defines "semiconductor device" to mean "[a]n elementary component, such as a transistor, or a larger unit of electronic equipment comprised of chips". Nevertheless, we are unable to sustain the � 102 rejection, because Doki fails to disclose a single semiconductor device, even in the broad "electronic equipment" sense, which contains both bipolar and MOS transistors. The examiner's argument that persons skilled in the art would have understood that bipolar and MOS transistors can be integrated on the same chip, even if broadened to mean that persons skilled in the art would have understood that bipolar and MOS chips can be used in the same piece of electronic equipment, is unconvincing because the argument goes to obviousness under -7-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007