Ex parte HARDEE - Page 6




          Appeal No. 1997-3436                                       Page 6           
          Application No. 08/432,884                                                  


          Claims--American Perspectives, 21 Int'l Rev. Indus. Prop. &                 
          Copyright L. 497, 499, 501 (1990)).  Here, claims 14, 18, and               
          31-39 each specify in pertinent part the following                          
          limitations: “a local data write driver circuit coupled to                  
          receive write data during a write operation at a gate                       
          electrode of a transistor in said data write driver circuit                 
          ....”  Similarly, claims 40-44 each specify in pertinent part               
          the following limitations: “first and second local data write               
          driver circuits, each being configured to receive a respective              
          data signal at a respective gate electrode of first write                   
          driver transistors in said first and second local data write                
          driver circuits ....”  Accordingly, the claims each require                 
          receiving  data at a gate electrode of a transistor of a write              
          driver circuit.                                                             


               The examiner fails to show a disclosure of the claimed                 
          limitations in the prior art.  “The Patent Office has the                   
          initial duty of supplying the factual basis for its rejection.              
          It may not ... resort to speculation, unfounded assumptions or              
          hindsight reconstruction to supply deficiencies in its factual              
          basis.”                                                                     







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