Appeal No. 1997-3148
Application 08/408,088
broad enough scope to read on the disclosed Hoeberechts'
resistor R as disclosed in column 6. As pointed out by the
Examiner in the Examiner's answer, Hoeberechts' disclosed
voltage divider would require resistance of a relatively high
resistance so not to allow large currents to be supplied to
the semiconductor device. We note that the language
"relatively high-resistive resistor" defines a large range of
resistance. For instance, a resistor having a resistance of
10K ohms is a relatively high-resistive resistor when compared
to a resistor having only 1 ohm or even 1K ohm of resistance.
Therefore, we find that Hoeberechts teaches all of the
limitations as recited in Appellants' claim 16.
Appellants further argue that Hoeberechts does not
teach that the semiconductor cathode and the relatively high
resistive resistance is to be provided on a common support.
We disagree. Hoeberechts discloses in figure 9 a common
support, element 90, which reads on the common support as
recited in Appellants' claim 16.
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