Ex parte YOSHIDA - Page 5




          Appeal No. 1997-3161                                                        
          Application No. 08/450,553                                                  


          1993                                                                        
                                        (Effectively Filed Jul. 20,                                   
          1989)                                                                       
          Caywood                       5,235,544                Aug. 10,             
          1993                                                                        
                                                  (Filed Nov. 09, 1990)               
          Anantha et al. (Anantha), “Electrically Erasable Floating Gate              
          Field Effect Transistor Memory Cell,” 17 IBM Technical                      
          Disclosure Bulletin, no. 8, 2311-13 (January 1975).                         
          Dockerty, “Nonvolatile Memory Array with Single FAMOS Device                
          Per Cell,” 17 IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, no. 8, 2314-               
          15 (January 1975).                                                          
          Kikuchi et al. (Kikuchi), “A 2048-Bit N-Channel Fully Decoded               
          Electrically Writable/Erasable Nonvolatile Read Only Memory,”               
          1st European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSIRC), Kent,                
          England, 66-7 (September 1975).                                             

               Claims 6-9, 43, 45, 46, and 51-57 stand finally rejected               
          under the “enabling” clause of the first paragraph of 35                    
          U.S.C.                                                                      
          § 112, as well as under the second paragraph of 35 U.S.C.                   
          § 112 for failure to particularly point out and distinctly                  
          claim the invention.  Claims 6-9, 43, 45, 46, and 51-57 stand               
          further finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being                     
          unpatentable over Haddad in view of Anderson.                               
          Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellant                            



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