Appeal No. 1997-1762
Application No. 08/270,406
In response to the examiner’s lack of enablement
rejection, appellants submitted a declaration (paper number
25) executed by Athanasios P. Meliopoulos, an inventor in the
subject application. Declarant submitted Carson’s Equation
(Declaration, pages 2 and 3) as an example of an equation that
“appears to have incompatible dimensions but is correct.”
Declarant did not explain why one side of the equation had a
unit of feet while the other side of the equation had the
units of hertz and ohm-meters. In view of the lack of a
satisfactory explanation by declarant concerning the
incompatible dimensions, we decided (Decision, page 6) that:
Declarant’s citation of “Carson’s Equation”
(Declaration, pages 2 and 3) does not shed any light
on the incompatible dimensions in the disclosed
equation. In view of the lack of a satisfactory
explanation by the appellants, the burden still lies
with the appellants to provide suitable proofs
indicating that the equations are correct and have
compatible dimensions.
In order to buttress declarant’s position concerning the
compatibility between the dimensions in Carson’s Equation,
appellants have submitted with the request for rehearing an
excerpt from The Iowa State University Press entitled
“Analysis of Faulted Power Systems” by former Professor of
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