Appeal No. 96-2820 Application 08/227,705 amplifier bit lines and said second gate cuircuit isolates said second pair of bit lines from said pair of sense amplifier bit lines, and b) corresponding to data stored in a second memory cell accessed by one of said second word lines when said first gate circuit isolates said first pair of bit lines from said pair of sense amplifier bit lines and said second gate circuit connects said second pair of bit lines to said pair of sense amplifier bit lines. The Examiner relies on the following references: Schutz et al. (Schutz) 4,584,672 Apr. 22, 1986 Miyabayashi et al. (Miyabayashi) 4,916,667 Apr. 10, 1990 (filed Dec. 20, 1988) Sakui et al. (Sakui) 4,926,382 May 15, 1990 (filed Nov. 23, 1988) Matsui et al. (Matsui) 4,931,994 June 5, 1990 (filed Feb. 16, 1988) Childers 4,939,575 July 3,1990 (filed Sept. 5, 1989) Hannai 4,947,377 Aug. 7, 1990 (filed Apr. 15, 1988) Claims 81 through 90 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first, second and sixth paragraphs. Claims 81, 83, 84, 86, 87 and 89 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Childers with any of Hannai or Miyabayashi or Schutz or Matsui. Claims 82, 85, 88 and 90 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Childers in 4Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007