Appeal No. 1997-3436 Page 9
Application No. 08/432,884
In view of the reference’s teachings and showings, the
appellant's definition, and the examiner’s assertion, the
examiner’s interpretation amounts to speculation or an
unfounded assumption. Accordingly, we are not persuaded that
the reference discloses the claimed limitations of “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” or “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 ....” The absence of this disclosure
negates anticipation. Therefore, we reverse the rejection of
claims 14, 18, and 31-44 as anticipated by Oshawa.
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the examiner’s rejection of claims 14, 18,
and 31-44 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) is reversed.
REVERSED
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