Appeal No. 1999-1634
Application 08/729,399
"one different divided voltage" is a contradiction in terms, since a voltage cannot be
different from itself."
Appellant’s implicit view in the brief and reply brief that the claim requires in effect a
plurality of taps is consistent with the showings of the circuits in Figures 2-4 of the
disclosed invention. The examiner’s additional view that nothing prevents the nodes at the
outer ends of resistors 21 and 23 in Figure 2 of McClure from being considered taps is
misplaced. The node between resistors 21 and 25 as well as the node between resistors
23 and 27 in this Figure clearly are not "tapped" such as to feed an output directly to the
base of transistor 28 in Figure 2.
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