Appeal No. 95-1536
Application 07/746,176
Shirota et al. (Shirota), “A New NAND Cell for Ultra High Density 5V-
Only EEPROMs,” 1988 Symposium on VLSI Technology Digest of
Technical Papers, San Diego, May 10-13, 1988, IEEE Cat. No. 88CH-
2597-3, pp. 33-34.
Claims 1-34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first and second paragraphs.
Claims 17, 18, 20 and 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a), (e) and/or (g) as
anticipated by, or in the alternative, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Momodomi ‘812.
Claims 1-3 and 17-19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Adler in
view of Sumihiro.
Claims 1-4, 6, 10 and 13-17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over either
of Shirota or Masuoka and Sumihiro taken together.
Claims 18-20 and 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Masuoka in
view of Sumihiro and Adler.
Claims 4, 5, 7-12, 17-19, 21, 23 and 25-34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Adler in view of Sumihiro and Shirota.
Claims 1-34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) as anticipated by, or in the alternative,
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Momodomi ‘900.
The respective positions of the examiner and the appellants with regard to the propriety of these
rejections are set forth in the final rejection of June 16, 1993 and the examiner's answer dated
November 22, 1994, and the appellants’ amended and reply briefs filed July 1, 1994 and January 23,
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