Appeal No. 95-2665
Application 07/999,609
Fowler-Nordheim tunneling effect allowing said floating gate to
couplingly vary the conductivity of said channel after de-
energization of said control traces, thereby enabling the non-
volatile memory cell to be deprogrammable.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Arima et al. (Arima) 5,101,250 Mar. 31, 1992
Guterman 5,153,691 Oct. 6, 1992
Ma et al. (Ma) 5,280,446 Jan. 18, 1994
(effective filing date Sep. 20, 1990)
Komori et al. (Komori)
(Japanese Kokai) 61-144878 2 July 2, 1986
Hasunuma
(Japanese Kokai) 61-216482 2 Sep. 26, 1986
Claims 5-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Guterman in
view of Hasunuma, further in view of Komori and Ma as to claims
5, 6 and 8-16, with the addition of Arima as to claims 7, 17 and
18. An outstanding rejection of certain claims under the second
paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 from the final rejection was not
repeated in the answer. Therefore, it is not before us.
2Our understanding of these two references is based upon translations
provided by the Scientific and Technical Information Center of the Patent
and Trademark Office. Copies of these translations are enclosed with this
opinion. Because of the dates of the translations, it appears that the
examiner obtained translations in preparation of the Examiner’s Answer, which
quotes-in-part from translation pages. The file record is not clear if
appellant has been supplied copies of the translations. Therefore, we are
supplying copies as attachments to this opinion.
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