Appeal No. 1996-3444
Application No. 08/245,785
The rejection of claim 1 as unpatentable
over Chang, Takeshita and Waters.
With respect to independent claim 1, the Examiner
proposes to modify the diode-capacitor memory cell structure
of Chang by relying on the reset electrode feature of
Takeshita to supply the missing teaching of an electrode in
contact with the patterned electrically conductive material as
claimed. Waters is additionally added to the proposed
combination as providing a teaching of a substrate comprised
of only a single conductivity type. In the Examiner’s view,
one of ordinary skill would find it obvious to provide an
electrode connection between the diode and capacitor in Chang
for enabling a reset operation in view of the combined
teachings of Takeshita and Waters.
In response, Appellant attacks the Examiner’s proposed
combination by asserting that Chang teaches away from any need
for an additional reset electrode connection since a reset
operation by diode avalanche breakdown is already taught by
Chang. Appellant further argues the inappropriateness of the
obviousness rejection since the Examiner’s proposed
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