Ex parte PADOAN et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1997-2034                                                        
          Application No. 08/347,788                                                  


               Claims 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 through 18, 23, and 26                 
          through 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being                    
          unpatentable over Numata in view of Yoshida or Lee.                         
               Claims 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 through 18, 23, and 26                 
          through 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being                    
          unpatentable over Yoshida or Lee.                                           
               Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 18,              
          mailed December 11, 1996) for the examiner's complete                       
          reasoning in support of the rejections, and to appellants'                  
          Brief (Paper No. 17, filed October 22, 1996) and Reply Brief                
          (Paper No. 19, filed January 15, 1997) for appellants'                      
          arguments thereagainst.                                                     
                                       OPINION                                        
               We have carefully considered the claims, the applied                   
          prior art references, and the respective positions articulated              
          by appellants and the examiner.  As a consequence of our                    
          review, we will reverse the obviousness rejections of claims                
          1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 through 18, 23, and 26 through 30.                 
               Independent claims 1, 9, and 23 require two natural field              
          effect transistors.  Claim 15 requires two field effect                     
          transistors which "do not include any dopant concentration in               
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