Appeal No. 1997-4442
Application 08/353,040
Claims 2-6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Drabkin and Sahagen. This is a new
ground of rejection added in the Examiner's Answer.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 11), the
Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 16) (pages referred to as
"EA__"), and the Examiner's Supplemental Answer (Paper No. 18)
for a statement of the Examiner's position and to the Brief
(Paper No. 15) (pages referred to as "Br__"), the Reply Brief
(Paper No. 17) (pages referred to as "RBr__"), and the
Supplemental Reply Brief (Paper No. 19) for Appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Independent claim 6 and dependent claim 3 are argued
separately. Thus, claim 2 stands or falls together with
claim 6 and claims 4 and 5 stand or fall together with
claim 3.
Anticipation - Dewit
De Wit discloses (e.g., figures 1 and 4) a temperature
independent resistor circuit comprising a first resistor R1
with a positive TCR and a second resistor R having a negative
2
TCR. When the resistances are coupled together, the
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