Appeal No. 2000-0751
Application No. 08/903,549
Having said that, we do find that Yee meets the instant
claim language because the second group of transistors is
connected to a supply voltage Vcc and appellant does not dispute
this. Yee does not specify Vcc to be a positive voltage and so
Vcc may be either a positive or a negative bias voltage,
depending on the choice of the artisan building the circuit.
Since Vcc may be positive or negative, Yee clearly does permit
the second transistor gate electrode to be “adapted to be
selectively connected to a positive or a negative bias voltage,”
as claimed.
We will sustain the rejection of claim 11 under 35 U.S.C.
102(e) over Yee.
Next, we treat the rejection of claims 27 and 30 under
35 U.S.C. 102(b) over either one of Yoh or Crouse.
With regard to these claims, the examiner contends that the
zero threshold transistor reads on an n-channel depletion FET
formed in parallel with a PMOSFET, as disclosed in column 1, last
three lines of Yoh and in column 4, lines 25-30 of Crouse.
For his part, appellant argues only that the examiner has
not given due credence to the claim language “adapted to,” that
this language must be read as related to corresponding structure
and that there is “absolutely no structure disclosed in any of
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