Appeal No. 96-4083
Application 08/268,039
laser diode. We agree with the Examiner that this teaching
would reasonably would have conveyed to those skilled in the
art that the bypass capacitor would be connected to the
positive terminal of the laser diode and then to the common
terminal which would be ground. Therefore, we find that
Suzuki teaches all the limitations as recited in Appellants'
claim 33.
On page 6 of the brief, Appellants point to Figure 9
of Suzuki and state that Figure 9 only shows capacitance C
connected to ground which represents the modular part of the
device,
consisting of a p-n junction capacitance, the bonding-pad
capacitance, and the stray capacitance. We note that Figure 9
of Suzuki is not directed to the bypass capacitor as taught
earlier
on page 782. Turning to page 783, Suzuki teaches that the
capacitance shown in Figure 9 is related to the p-n junction
capacitance, the bonding-pad capacitance, and the stray
capacitance of the laser diode itself. Therefore, the circuit
shown in Figure 9 is a circuit model for the frequency
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