Ex Parte Benzer - Page 6


                   Appeal No. 2006-1881                                                                                             
                   Application 10/145,408                                                                                           


                           We also agree with the examiner’s additional reliance upon Raman in                                      
                   combination with Ker in the fourth stated rejection of claims 18, 25, 47 and 48.  The                            
                   examiner’s basic rationale is expressed at pages 9 through 11 of the answer.  As in                              
                   dependent claim 18, which depends from independent 17, it is stated to further comprise                          
                   a driver logic circuit.  As to this representative claim, we note that the pre-driver circuits                   
                   515 in figure 27 of Ker may comprise a broadly recited driver logic circuit.  To the extent                      
                   this recitation is intended to be an additional circuit element as shown in disclosed figure                     
                   4 as element 418 in addition to the pre-drivers of 416, the examiner’s additional reliance                       
                   of Raman was appropriate within 35 U.S.C. § 103.  Logic circuit 26 in figure 1 feeds the                         
                   pre-driver circuits 24 and 28 in the same manner as appellant’s disclosed invention does                         
                   in figure 4.  The pre-driver circuits 515 in figure 27 of Ker do not stand alone but are fed                     
                   input/output information from/to the remaining parts of the disclosed integrated circuits                        
                   structure of which figure 27 is only a part.  The entire integrated circuit structure of Ker                     
                   appears to correspond to the circuit device 12 in figure 1 of Raman as a whole.   In                             
                   accordance with Raman’s background discussion with respect to input/output devices in                            
                   the context of transmission and reception circuits, this compares with the earlier noted                         
                   discussion at the bottom of column 9 of Ker with respect to the third embodiment in that                         
                   reference.  Obviously, within 35 U.S.C. § 103 as stated in the paragraph beginning at                            
                   Raman’s column 3, line 19, various logic elements provide signals to his logic circuit 26,                       
                   such as the data and clock signal shown in figure 1.                                                             






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