Appeal No. 2005-0888
Application No. 10/039,663
and claims 13, 20 and 22 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious
over Yamasaki in view of Tani and Wolf.1
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections. We need to address
only the independent claims, i.e., claims 1 and 4, which require
that components over which power distribution lines (claim 1) or
power distributors (claim 4) are deposited are active components.
Yamasaki discloses power supply lines (4 and 5) deposited over
an MOS transistor (70) (col. 8, lines 15-36; figure 2B).
The examiner argues, in reliance upon a dictionary definition
which states that a transistor is “an active semiconductor device”,
that Yamasaki’s MOS transistor is an active component (answer,
pages 11-12).
An active component has been defined as:
[ELEC] In the phasor representation of quantities in an
alternating-current circuit, the component of current,
voltage, or apparent power which contributes power,
namely, the active current, active voltage, or active
power. Also known as power component. [ELECTR] See
active element.[2]
1 A rejection of claim 2 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is
withdrawn in the examiner’s answer (page 3).
2 McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
28 (Sybil P. Parker ed., McGraw-Hill 5th ed. 1994). An active
element is defined as: “[ELECTR] Any generator of voltage or
current in an impedance network. Also known as active
component.” Id. at 29. A copy of each dictionary definition
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