Appeal No. 1996-1577
Application No. 08/215,205
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. §
134 from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1, 2, 5-8, 11-13,
18 and 19. Claims 3, 4, 9, 10, 14 and 15 have been indicated
as containing allowable subject matter. Claims 16 and 17 have
been canceled. An amendment after final rejection was filed
on
July 10, 1995. This amendment has not been officially
entered, and the entry or nonentry of this amendment has never
been communicated to appellant. The appeal brief includes the
claims in amended form. The examiner’s answer indicates both
that the appellant’s statement of the status of amendments
after final rejection is incorrect [answer, section (2)] and
that the copy of the claims contained in the brief is correct
[id., section (6)]. Since the noted amendment only makes minor
corrections of form to the claims, our decision is not
affected by whether or not the amendment has been entered by
the examiner.
The disclosed invention pertains to an apparatus for
dimming a plurality of parallel connected gas discharge lamps.
A complete AC supply voltage waveform is applied to each
ballast of the gas discharge lamps upon initial application of
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