Appeal No. 96-3258
Application 08/241,875
at page 8 of the Brief on appeal, the claimed switching
element has been stated to correspond to the transistor Q ,
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whereas the lower portion of this same paragraph at the bottom
at page 8 indicates that this transistor is characterized as
an output transistor, which feature and characterization is
more consistent with the disclosed invention. Again, at the
middle and bottom at page 9 of the Brief on appeal, the
claimed switching element recited in representative claim 4 on
appeal is again said to correspond to transistor Q . Also at
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the bottom of page 9 of the Brief, the claimed first current
is said to correspond to I and the claimed second current is
1
said to correspond to the feedback current IFB, which is
further characterized as being a modified version of I . In
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addition to separately characterizing IFB as a separate
subcurrent from I and I in the disclosed invention, this1 2
characterization of appellant adds further ambiguity to what
would appear to have been a normally clear correspondence of
the claimed first and second currents with the latter two
respective currents in representative Figure 1. In any event,
this concern along with the discontinuity between the argued
meaning of the claimed switching element and the disclosed
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