Appeal No. 1998-0824
Application No. 08/621,767
problem; all of which is disclosed in later pages of
Appellants' specification.
Looking to Takahashi which discloses a disabling circuit
for a power-on event, we fail to find that this would lead
those skilled in the art to lift the transistor 14 shown in
Figure 5 and somehow modify Figure 6 to arrive at Appellants'
claimed invention which is shown in Figure 9. Even if we
could agree with the Examiner that the basic concept is taught
by Takahashi, we fail to find a teaching or suggestion on how
to connect the Takahashi transistor 14 into Appellants' Figure
6. We fail to find any suggestion or reason from the admitted
prior art, Figure 6, that there is a problem with power
consumption of the second current generator. Certainly, there
is no suggestion in Takahashi of this problem since Takahashi
is dealing with a completely different circuit. Therefore, we
find that the only suggestion for making a modification of
Appellants' Figure 6 is the Appellants' specification itself.
Therefore, we fail to find that the Examiner properly found
evidence of reasons or desirability of making the modification
in the prior art.
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