Appeal No. 1997-3936
Application No. 08/449,409
13. A charge pump circuit for providing a plurality of
substrate bias voltages, said pump circuit comprising:
a pump switch for supplying a plurality of voltages,
wherein levels of said voltages are determined in response to
control signals; and
a pump unit including a transfer component, each voltage
providing a supply voltage for said pump unit, said pump unit
responsive to levels of said plurality of voltages and to an
oscillating signal having a determined frequency for providing
said plurality of substrate bias voltages.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Alvarez et al. (Alvarez) 5,362,990 Nov.
08, 1994
Prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner as evidence in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Scade et al. (Scade) 4,843,256 Jun. 27,
1989
Hirayama et al. (Hirayama) 5,461,338 Oct. 24,
1995
(filed Apr. 16, 1993)
Arakawa 5,489,870 Feb. 06,
1996
(filed Mar. 17, 1994)
Claims 13 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, as being indefinite.1
We note that on page 2 of the Answer, the examiner withdrew the1
rejection of claims 6 through 8 and 14 through 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph.
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