Appeal No. 2000-0806
Application No. 09/016,398
determine the scope of the claim. "[T]he name of the game is
the claim." In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362, 1369, 47 USPQ2d
1523, 1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998).
Appellant's claim 14 recites a semiconductor
integrated circuit device comprising a semiconductor chip
having a plurality of connection pads, each connected on a
first surface of a carrier base to a corresponding conductor,
each conductor connected to a corresponding spherical-shaped
external connection terminal on a second, opposite side of the
carrier base, a first insulating adhesive layer adhering the
carrier base to the semiconductor chip, a second insulating
adhesive layer adhering a reinforcement base to the
semiconductor chip, the carrier base and reinforcement base
forming a "sandwich" with the insulating layers and
semiconductor chip between them, and wherein the carrier base
and reinforcement base have substantially the same size as the
semiconductor chip.
We agree with the Examiner that Dordi teaches, as
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