Appeal No. 1998-1815 Page 9
Application No. 08/684,328
third group comprised "[c]laims 8-9, drawn to a sense
amplifier utilizing a data write driver circuit for write
operation ...." (Paper No. 3 at 2.) It is uncontested that
these are the claims in the '183 Application. (Appeal Br. at
40.)
Although claims 43 and 44 have been added to the instant
application and amended since the restriction requirement, the
examiner fails to allege, let alone show, that the claims have
been altered to recite a sense amplifier utilizing a data
write driver circuit for a write operation. To the contrary,
the claims are still method claims drawn to "[a] method of
writing data to a selected memory cell in an integrated
circuit memory having a plurality of sense amplifiers coupled
to a plurality
of bit lines which are coupled to a plurality of memory
cells ...." Because claims 43 and 44 omit a method, we are
not persuaded that the claims cross the line of demarcation
drawn in the restriction requirement. Therefore, we reverse
the provisional rejection of claims 43 and 44 over claims 8,
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