Appeal No. 1997-0272
Application No. 08/277,388
We find the examiner’s challenge to the sufficiency of
disclosure and allegation of indefiniteness to be unreasonable
and we will not sustain either rejection under 35 U.S.C. §
112.
While we would agree that it does take some time and
effort to sift through the specification and drawings to
determine how the drawings are interrelated and what comprises
the temperature sensitive resistor, after a thorough review of
the instant disclosure, we find no inadequacy of disclosure
nor any indefiniteness in the claims for essentially the
reasons set forth by appellant, at pages 6 through 24 of the
principal brief. As explained therein, Figures 4-7 are the
more general illustrations for the detailed circuitry shown in
Figures 9-14, with Figure 9 showing the overall diagram of the
circuit. Also, as is made clear on page 29 of the
specification and Figure 12, epitaxial resistor R44 is the
preferred temperature sensitive resistor which is connected
within the Hall effect element circuit in a manner which
prevents changes in the first output signal from affecting a
voltage potential across the temperature sensitive resistor,
as claimed.
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