Appeal No. 1999-1630
Application No. 08/784,775
speed, while the examiner contends that reduced power consumption is a reason that would have led
the artisan to make modifications to APA. If the claimed subject matter results from a suggestion by
the prior art to make a modification, albeit for different reasons than those of an applicant, a proper
rejection may, nevertheless, lie under 35 U.S.C. 103. Our decision herein results, not because reduced
power consumption was employed for the reason for modification, but because, in our view, the
examiner’s reason for modifying APA by changing the bipolar transistors of APA to the MOS
transistors of Nagasawa (i.e., for reduced power consumption) was not consistent with the disclosure
of Nagasawa with regard to the elements actually causing the reduction in power consumption.
The examiner’s decision is reversed.
REVERSED
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