Appeal No. 96-0396
Application 08/091,953
due to resistance in the windings, magnetic losses, etc. This
means that if a DC to DC converter raises the voltage, the
amperage of the supplied current must be reduced and vice-versa.
Thus to the extent that the originally filed specification may
have mistakenly implied that both the voltage and current would
be lowered by the DC to DC converter, this would have been
readily understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to be an
impossibility under the operating conditions otherwise described
in the originally filed specification. After reviewing the
disclosure as a whole, we are convinced that the skilled artisan
would have readily understood the passage at page 8, lines 5-10,
of the originally filed specification in the manner now set forth
in the substitute specification. Accordingly, since in our
opinion, one of ordinary skill in the art would have reasonably
understood that the inventors herein had possession of the now
claimed subject matter at the time of original filing of the
application, we reverse the examiner’s rejection of claims 5
through 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph.
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