Appeal No. 96-1895
Application 08/011,682
will be refused consideration by the Board of patent [sic]
Appeals and Interferences, unless good cause is shown."
[Emphasis added.]). Nevertheless, we have examined the
arguments at page 7 of Amendment C and find no argument why
the cited portions of Abed do not describe a low pass filter
comprising a notch filter and an elliptical function filter;
appellant merely states that they do not.
Notwithstanding the lack of argument or explanation by
appellant in the brief, it is evident that the resonant
filter 149 in Abed does not meet the express claim
limitations of a "low pass filter" having both a "notch
filter" and an "elliptical function filter." Abed has only
an "elliptical function filter." This point was brought out
at the oral hearing. The notch filter and elliptical
function filter are disclosed to be separate elements as
shown, for example, in figure 6, and are claimed as separate
elements. Abed discloses an "elliptic filter having a
combined low pass and notch response" (col. 8, lines 7-8).
As evident from appellant's figure 7, an elliptical filter
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