Appeal No. 1997-3444
Application 08/268,728
Brief (Paper No. 46) has been denied entry as untimely (Paper
No. 48), and is not considered.
OPINION
Objection to specification
While the objection to the specification is not within
our jurisdiction, we advise the Examiner to consider
withdrawing the rejection. The complete specification will
provide more information to the public sooner than one that
has been redacted.
Anticipation
"Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principles of
inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention."
RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d
1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Handbook
The underlying question seems to be whether the reverse
base current (RBC) effect described and claimed by Appellants
is the same physical mechanism as latch-up in the avalanche
breakdown region shown in the Handbook, just described in a
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