Appeal No. 1997-1364
Application 08/343,276
We reverse the rejections of claims 5, 6, 14, and 15
under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Each of independent claims 5 and 14 in part recites the
feature of a bootstrap circuit which enables the p-channel
pumping transistor to conduct a charge from the pumping
capacitor to the substrate claimed "without imparting all of a
threshold voltage of the p-channel pumping transistor as a
voltage loss."
The examiner relies upon Truong in both rejections for
independent claims 5 and 14 on appeal. The answer correlates
the bootstrap circuit of the claim to transistor and capacitor
circuit elements at the bottom of Figure 5. Neither the
statement of the rejection at pages 4 and 5 of the answer, nor
the responsive arguments portion of the answer beginning at
page 6 discusses specifically the above noted quoted feature
of each independent claim on appeal.
For their part, appellants urge the patentability of each
independent claim on appeal based upon common arguments which
are set forth at pages 10 and 11 of the brief as to the first
rejection of claim 5 and at pages 17 and 18 as to the
rejection of claim 14. There, appellants set forth what they
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