Appeal No. 1997-1232
Application No. 08/182,035
assessment of suitability. The determination by Weber of the
points of intersection of the quadrature component curves,
i.e. the point at which the magnitudes of the amplitudes are
equal, produces meaningful timing information every cycle
obviating the need to assess the suitability of the
information as presently claimed. Since all of the claimed
limitations are not disclosed by Weber, it is our opinion that
the Examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection based on Weber is
not well founded.
Turning to a consideration of the 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)
rejection of claims 1, 2, and 23 based on Carmon, we find
Appellant’s arguments to be equally persuasive. We agree with
Appellant’s assertion (Reply Brief, page 3) that the method
described by Carmon determines only whether a timing advance
or delay is required but does not detect a maximum or minimum
value as required by the language of independent claim 1. In
our view, Carmon’s method, described in particular at columns
8 and 9, utilizes an algorithm which enables a determination
as to whether maximum or minimum peaks fall between two
sampling points on a curve but has no disclosure related to
the actual detection of the values of those peaks. Similarly,
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