Appeal No. 97-0951
Application 08/148,452
Wong discloses applicant's claimed invention but does
not disclose the usage of a second voltage output,
voltage clamping means and a regulated voltage source.
A second voltage output mainly depends upon the
requirements of the circuit, if the a [sic] second
output is necessary to the function of the circuit then
it should be included, if not then it is not included.
It would have been obvious at the time of [sic]
invention was made, to a person having ordinary skill
in the art to [?] a slew rate controller as disclosed
by Wong and Banura, and combine it with the use of a
second voltage output, provides [sic] several output
voltages at different and varied ranges was known to be
reasonably pertinent to [the] art of Wong.
This rejection does not address any of the limitations
of the regulator circuit except, perhaps, the general use of
a second voltage output. Since the Examiner correctly finds
that Wong does not disclose a regulator circuit, it would
seem that the rejection should address the limitations of
"first, second, and third current conducting legs" with the
limitations of what elements are contained in each leg.
However, it does not. The rejection does not even mention
the added patent to Brewer. Brewer is directed to a charge
pump circuit for providing bipolar voltage outputs. The
Examiner makes no attempt to correlate the teachings of
Brewer with the limitations of the claims at issue. It
appears that the Examiner has used Brewer simply for its
teaching of two outputs, which fails to even marginally
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