Appeal No. 1998-0441
Application 08/713,089
OPINION
Summary of the invention
The Examiner considers the summary of the invention in
the brief to be deficient (EA2-3). Appellants counter that
the description is proper (RBr2-4).
We are capable of making our own judgment about the
summary and find it to be acceptable. Moreover, it is our
job to determine the correctness of the Examiner's
rejection, not to rule on the propriety of the briefs.
35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
Appellants argue (Br16): "[E]ach of independent
claims 2, 7, 12 and 17 clearly requires that the constant
voltage source is directly connected to an external power
source so as to receive an external power source voltage and
output a constant voltage to a ring oscillator. The cited
references to Motegi and Sakurai do not disclose any similar
structure." Thus, one issue is the constant voltage source.
Claims 2, 3, 7-9, 11-14, and 16
The Examiner states that when the phase lock loop
(PLL) 1 in Motegi is stable, constant voltage PV is output
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