Appeal No. 1997-0837
Application 08/121,116
re King, 801 F.2d 1324, 231 USPQ 136 (Fed. Cir. 1986). In our
opinion, the examiner has not discharged that initial burden.
Shibata does not provide any detailed disclosure of how its
neuron MOSFETs are to be connected to a plurality of photoelectric
conversion elements. In Figure 1, Darling discloses a plurality
of cells, each cell comprising parallel transistors. Each cell
has two outer transistors and a central element which may or may
not be a transistor. Although the central element has no gate in
Figure 1, because Darling describes the cells at the top of column
2 as typified by a parallel interconnection of transistors, it
would appear that the central element is also a transistor.
However, in Darling the central element or transistor has no gate
coupled to its corresponding photoelectric conversion element.
Accordingly, the combination of Darling and Shibata would not
appear to yield a structure wherein each neuron MOSFET has an
input gate coupled to
its corresponding photoelectric conversion element. Although it
may be correct that combining the teachings of Darling and Shibata
would necessarily result in a structure wherein each neuron MOSFET
inherently has a gate coupled to its corresponding photoelectric
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