Appeal No. 1997-0258
Application No. 08/251,052
§ 103 rejection, proposes to modify Hsieh by asserting the
obviousness to the skilled artisan of providing a transistor
in the reset circuitry to conduct DC current. In the
Examiner’s view, the skilled artisan would have found it
obvious to utilize CMOS circuity in the AND gate of Hsieh
since the remainder of Hsieh’s circuitry is CMOS. The
Examiner concludes (Answer, page 7), therefore, that since AND
gates comprising CMOS circuitry which include transistors to
conduct DC current are well known, the resulting circuitry
would meet the claim limitations.
As with the Examiner’s earlier findings regarding the
establishment of current path to ground, we find such
assertions to be totally lacking of any support on the record.
Further, regardless of the merits of the Examiner’s position
as to the inclusion of transistor circuitry in Hsieh’s AND
gate 83, we note that each of the independent claims 4 and 10
requires an establishment of a DC current path to ground by
the reset circuitry. Our earlier discussion with regard to
independent claims 1 and 7 found Hsieh to be lacking in any
teaching or suggestion of this feature. Accordingly, we do
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