Appeal No. 2003-1208
Application 09/590,805
not disclosed or suggested by Kalnitsky or the admitted prior art
(brief, page 11).
Kalnitsky’s structure for determining the effect of
radiation on integrated circuits is broadly applicable to
integrated circuits generally. Hence, Kalnitsky would have
fairly suggested, to one of ordinary skill in the art, forming
the structure on any integrated circuit containing conventional
structures such as memory cells operatively coupled to an address
decoder. We therefore affirm the rejection of claim 5 and
claim 4 that stands or falls therewith.
Claim 6
The appellants’ claim 6, which depends from claim 1,
requires that “said second lead of said first device is connected
to ground,[7] said first lead of said first device is connected to
power, and said first lead of said second device is connected to
power.”
The appellants’ original claim 6 required that “said second
lead of said first device is connected to ground, said third lead
of said first device is connected to power, and said third lead
7 Both the first lead, as recited in claim 1, and the second
lead, as recited in claim 6 which depends therefrom, are
connected to ground.
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