Appeal No. 1997-0179
Application 08/251,054
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A memory device for producing a burn-in reference voltage, comprising:
an input circuit for receiving an internal reference voltage and an external reference voltage;
a feedback circuit coupled to said input circuit to produce a feedback voltage having deviations
from said internal reference voltage, said feedback circuit being responsive to said deviations of said
feedback voltage to adjust said feedback voltage toward said internal reference voltage as said
feedback voltage is measured with respect to said internal reference voltage;
a mirroring circuit coupled to said feedback circuit and said input circuit to produce said burn-in
reference voltage by receiving said feedback voltage and mirroring said feedback voltage to produce a
mirrored voltage having a magnitude approximately the same as said feedback voltage, said mirrored
voltage being measured with respect to said external reference voltage.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Fischer 5,300,837 Apr. 5, 1994
(filed Sept. 17, 1992)
Claims 1 to 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite for
failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter regarded as the invention (see
Answer, page 3).
The rejection of claims 1 to 8 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Rybicki has
been withdrawn.2
2The Answer states that the rejection of claims 1 to 8 as being anticipated by Rybicki "has been withdrawn
by the examiner" (Answer, page 2).
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