Appeal No. 96-3258
Application 08/241,875
Additionally, the claimed first and second currents would
appear only to correspond to currents I and I of1 2
representative Figure 1, for example. This study of the
claimed invention in light of the disclosure reveals a very
glaring discontinuity. The claimed switching element,
comprising the last two clauses of representative claim 4 on
appeal, is disclosed to be the NMOS transistor NT in
representative Figure 1 and the other figures as well, even
the conventional circuit shown in Figure 8. Note the
discussion of this latter figure at the middle of page 1 of
the specification indicates that “NT represents an NMOS
transistor used as a switching element.” A similar
correspondence has been established at the bottom of page 6 of
the specification, the top of page 7 and the entire short
paragraph at the bottom of page 14. The language of
representative claim 4 relating to the claimed switching
element does not clearly correspond to the switching element
of the disclosed invention.
All of these above problems are further compounded when
appellant’s arguments are considered in the Brief on appeal in
at least two respects. At the beginning of the long paragraph
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