Appeal No. 96-3442
Application No. 08/253,884
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An integrated circuit comprising a bootstrap circuit
including:
at least a pair of drivers and one capacitor coupled in a
configuration forming a bootstrap node, each of said drivers
having an input port; and
a bipolar transistor having its emitter coupled to said
node and having its base coupled to the input port of one of
said drivers.
The Examiner relies on the following references : 2
Shin 4,965,470 Oct.
23,
1990
Sobue et al. (Sobue) 5,394,038 Feb. 28,
1995
(Effectively filed Mar. 13,
1992)
Claims 1-6 and 8-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
The rejections of the appealed claims are set forth by the
Examiner as follows:
1. Claims 1, 4, 10, and 11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over the prior art as illustrated
in Fig. 1 of the present application in view of Shin.
2The Examiner has additionally relied on a description of
the prior art on page 3 of the specification and illustrated
in Figure 1 of the drawings.
2
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