Appeal No. 1998-0512
Application No. 08/477,238
Claim 11 recites "reversing positions of portions of said
second and third paths." None of the drawings of Brownell
show reversing the locations of the second and third
conductive paths. Brownell discloses in Figure 12 four
primary and four secondary terminals connected by conductive
paths wherein the positions of the first and fourth conductive
paths are reversed between the two sets of terminals to couple
the second and fourth and the first and third conductive
paths. However, the second and third conductive paths remain
in the same positions.
Claim 11 further recites spacing sections of the first
and third paths and also the second and fourth paths "with
solid dielectric material to form a ... capacitive coupling
therebetween." Although the conductive paths of Brownell
inherently are capacitively coupled, all of the conductive
paths are on the same side of the substrate. In other words,
Brownell does not disclose placing the conductive paths on
both sides of a dielectric substrate (as implied by "spaced
with solid dielectric material") to capacitively couple them
through the substrate.
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