Appeal No. 95-3876
Application 08/222,009
4, lines 40-45). Although, as appellants correctly note
(Brief at 6, lines 7-9), the length of the flash terminating
command is not disclosed, it is nevertheless apparent from the
signals in Figure 4 that it ends after the end of the flash
firing command (signal A). Consequently, I would also affirm
the rejection of claim 9.
Claim 10 depends on claim 14 and specifies that the
control means includes means for invalidating the flash firing
command on the basis of the flash terminating command. In
appellants' Figure 1 embodiment, this apparently refers to the
fact that the flash terminating signal which is applied to
transistor Q5 via transistor Q6 will override a flash exciting
signal that is applied to transistor Q5 via resistor R15.
Appellants' argument that this claim is patentable for the
same reasons as claim 9 (Brief at 6) is unconvincing because
it incorrectly assumes that claim 10 depends on claim 9. I
would therefore also affirm the rejection of claim 10.
Because claims 11 and 12, which depend on claim 14,
are not separately argued, I would treat these claims as
standing or falling (in this case, falling) with claim 14.
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