Appeal No. 1999-1553
Application No. 08/567,379
Because of appellant’s connection of the coupling means (capacitors) to the distributed
electrical conductor, noise is actually introduced into the noise susceptible circuits in order
that the noise is “common throughout the noise susceptible circuits” so that the circuits
operate with immunity to the noise. The examiner has pointed to nothing in the applied
references remotely suggesting this claimed limitation.
The examiner’s response is to state that the artisan would have been led by the
teachings of the applied references “to add coupling means (i.e. capacitors) to virtually any
point in any circuit” [answer-page 5]. That is a very general statement of obviousness and
doesn’t begin to answer the question as to why or how the applied references suggest the
explicitly claimed connection of the coupling means to a distributed electrical conductor
carrying noise signals in such a manner that noise is actually introduced into the noise
susceptible circuits in order that the noise is “common throughout the noise susceptible
circuits,” allowing the circuits to operate with immunity to the noise.
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