Ex parte MILLMAN et al. - Page 5




                 Appeal No. 1999-0259                                                                                                                   
                 Application 08/596,857                                                                                                                 



                                   forming a distributed serial load with said first                                                                    
                 and second effective load impedances of said first and second                                                                          
                 bit cells where said distributed serial load provides a                                                                                
                 characteristic load model of the memory array.                                                                                         
                                   In rejecting Appellants’ claims, the Examiner relies                                                                 
                 on a single reference:                                                                                                                 
                 Komoda                   5,379,232                   Jan. 3,                                                                           
                 1995                                                                                                                                   


                                   Claims 1-3, 10, 13, and 16-18 stand rejected under                                                                   
                 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over Komoda.                                                                                          
                                   Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellants and                                                                   
                 Examiner, we refer the reader to the Appellants’ Brief  and                                      1                                     
                 Examiner’s Answer  for the respective details thereof.2                                                                                                       


                                                                     OPINION                                                                            
                                   With full consideration being given the subject                                                                      
                 matter on appeal, the Examiner’s rejection and the arguments                                                                           


                          1Appellants filed a Brief on Appeal (“Brief”) on                                                                              
                 April 21, 1998.                                                                                                                        
                          2The Examiner, in response to Appellants’ Brief, filed an                                                                     
                 Examiner's Answer on July 20, 1998.                                                                                                    
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