Appeal No. 2003-0882 Page 5
Application No. 09/911,198
page 11). Appellants assert that it is impossible to furnish a
programmed value to the output terminal of Jung while Q10 is
disabled (id.). Appellants do not rebut any specific teaching of
Jung, but rather disagree with examiner’s interpretation of the
reference (brief, page 12). Additionally, appellants (reply
brief, page 2) do not dispute examiner’s assertion of well-known
facts that "an inverter can be implemented using a PMOS
transistor and an NMOS transistor," and that "two inverters
connected in a loop constitutes a latch." Appellants assert,
however, that the examiner has failed to consider other basic
complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) principles when
utilizing Jung (id.). In Appellants’ Appendix B, appellants rely
on an excerpt from a textbook FUNDAMENTALS OF MOS DIGITAL
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, Figure 3.26, that discloses a basic CMOS
inverter circuit having a path to ground for transistor function
(reply brief, page 3).
From the disclosure of the textbook, appellants conclude
that the pulldown transistor Q10 with the input “EN” enables and
disables the ability of Q5-Q8 to form inverters and thus form a
latch [emphasis added by appellants] (id.). In contradiction to
the examiner’s assertion, appellants assert that Q5-Q8 float when
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