Appeal No. 96-2614
Application 08/098,740
The applicant’s admitted prior art as depicted in Figure 1 of
the
specification.
The Rejections on Appeal
Claims 5 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over the appellant’s admitted prior art as
depicted in Figure 1 of the specification, in view of Carroll.
Claims 1-3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12-20, 21 and 22 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the
appellant’s admitted prior art as depicted in Figure 1 of the
specification, in view of Carroll and Pirez.
The Invention
The invention is directed to a capacitance multiplier
circuit (claims 1, 5 and 9), a method for providing a large RC
time constant (claim 13), and a method for temperature
compensating an RC circuit including a capacitor multiplier
circuit (claim 17). Claims 1, 5, 9, 13 and 17 are the only
independent claims. Claims 5 and 17 are representative and
are reproduced below:
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