Appeal No. 1997-3436 Page 8
Application No. 08/432,884
are on or off. Furthermore, the figure cited by the examiner
shows that neither of the data input/output lines is connected
to the respective gates of the transistors 14 and 15. Fig. 3.
In other words, the gates of the transistors are not shown to
receive any data signals.
Data write n-channel MOS transistors 14 and 15 possibly
could be interpreted as being write driver circuits; however,
the transistors could also be interpreted as pass transistors.
The examiner does not contest that appellant’s definition that
“[a] pass transistor simply (selectively) passes a voltage
from one node to another. On the other hand, a driver circuit
drives an output high or low.” (Appeal Br. at 20.) The
examiner’s assertion that transistors 14 and 15 “transmit the
information on the data input/output lines DQ-DQ to the bit
lines BL-BL,” (Examiner’s Answer at 4), is consistent with the
appellant’s definition of a pass transistor, which would mean
that transistors 14 and 15 are pass transistors rather than
write driver circuits.
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