The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 15
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte JAMES R. HELLUMS and JAMES R. HOCHSCHILD
Appeal No. 2001-2694
Application No. 09/103,704
ON BRIEF
Before KRASS, BARRETT and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-9 and 13.
The invention pertains to a time domain noise analyzer. In
particular, a simulator comprises a matrix of electrical circuit
elements and an analyzer for analyzing transient responses of the
circuit elements in the time domain with a known input signal to
provide a deterministic current value for each of the elements.
A noise source is associated with each circuit element for
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