Appeal No. 1997-0272
Application No. 08/277,388
nonsense. If the claimed subject matter is so poorly stated
that it cannot be understood well enough to apply prior art,
then no prior art should be applied. If prior art is to be
applied, the entire claimed subject matter must be taken into
account. While the teaching of a temperature sensitive
resistor not in the signal path between the Hall element
output and the circuit output may be a portion of what should
be shown by the prior art in order to reject the claim, the
instant claims require much more and the examiner has not
addressed those additional limitations.
CONCLUSION
We have not sustained the rejection of claims 1 through
20 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first or second paragraphs. We also
have not sustained the rejections of claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) nor have we sustained the rejections of claims 1
through 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
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