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. 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007