Appeal No. 2001-0740
Application 09/054,415
Appellants respond that claim 3 depends on claim 2, which
recites that the active element is an operational amplifier
(Br8). Operational amplifiers typically have two inputs. Thus,
claim 3 addresses configurations as shown in Fig. 11 (Br8).
The examiner responds that claim 3 does not identify the
inputs with any of the inputs to the amplifier circuit, the power
control circuit, and the operational amplifier (EA11).
Claim 3, when properly read, requires the "output" and the
"two inputs" to be elements of the operational amplifier because
the claim is directed to the connection of a capacitor to the
operational amplifier. This is not indefinite. The rejection of
claim 3 is reversed.
Claim 11
The examiner states that it is not clear in claim 11,
lines 2-4, how the first through third active devices relate to
"an active device" recited in the preamble or how "an active
device" on line 7 relates to "an active device" in the preamble
or to the first-third active devices on lines 2-4 (EA4). The
examiner states that the series connection of the first current
source, first active device, and second active device is
confusing (EA4-5).
Appellants refer to Fig. 7 as exemplary of the structure
recited by claim 11 (Br9). It is argued that "[t]he Examiner
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