Appeal No. 98-0580
Application No. 07/728,042
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 19
through 31 . Claims 1 through 18 and 32 have been allowed.2
The disclosed invention relates to an alternative power
source in a circuit arrangement for powering a gas discharge
lamp.
Claim 19 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
19. An arrangement comprising:
a source providing an AC source voltage at a pair of
AC source terminals;
full-wave rectifier having: (a) a pair of AC input
terminals connected with the AC source terminals, and (b) a
pair of DC output terminals including a negative terminal and
a positive terminal;
gas discharge lamp having a pair of lamp terminals;
and
a first assembly having: (a) a pair of DC input
terminals connected in circuit with the DC output terminals,
there being a DC supply voltage present between the DC input
terminals; and (b) a pair of AC output terminals connected
with the lamp terminals; the first assembly being
characterized by including:
2In Appeal Number 94-2870 (paper number 17) dated April
28, 1995, the Board reversed all of the rejections of record
of claims 1 through 31, and pursuant to the provisions of 37
CFR § 1.196(b) instituted a new ground of rejection of claims
19 through 31 under the second paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112.
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