Appeal No. 96-2950
Application 08/145,710
Upon a careful review of Kohda, we fail to find that Kohda
teaches
current increasing rate control means formed in said
substrate and responsive to a potential at said
predetermined node for controlling an increasing rate
of the output current by said current providing means,
wherein ... said current increasing rate control means
comprises conductance increasing timing control means
responsive to the potential at said predetermined node
for controlling an increasing rate of a conductance of
said first field effect transistor, and said current
increasing rate control means controlling the output
driver circuit to operate in at least a first state and
a second state, said current providing means provides a
first current increasing rate in the first state and
said current providing means provides a second current
increasing rate in the second state, said second
current increasing rate being slower than said first
current increasing rate
as recited in Appellants’ claim 1. Furthermore, we note
that claims 2 and 8 are dependent on claim 1 and thereby recite
the above limitation. Therefore, we find that Kohda fails to
teach all of the limitations of claims 1, 2 and 8, and thereby
the claims are not anticipated by Kohda.
In view of the foregoing, the decision of the Examiner
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