Appeal No. 96-0396
Application 08/091,953
suggest the limitations of the claims, we reverse the examiner’s
rejection of claims 1 and 2 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Claims 3 through 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Yoshizaki in view of Hamilton
and further in view of Dice. We will not sustain this rejection.
The same deficiency that required us to reverse the
rejection of claims 1 and 2 exists in this rejection too, namely
the lack of a single high voltage-low current DC supply and DC to
DC converters on each of the slot boards for converting the high
voltage-low current DC to a low voltage-high current DC needed by
the DUT on each given DUT board. In fact, the combination of
Yoshizaki, Hamilton, and Dice appears to teach away from the
claimed invention, by teaching the use of multiple power supplies
(elements 16, 18, 20 and 22 of Fig. 1 of Dice), which are sup-
plied to all the slot boards as required. Accordingly, since
Yoshizaki, Hamilton, and Dice fail to teach or suggest the
limitations of claims 3 through 16, we reverse the examiner’s
rejection of claims 3 through 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
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