Appeal No. 2001-0817
Application No. 09/048,876
Claims 15, 18 and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Green in view of Fukuden and Yamada.
Reference is made to the brief (paper number 8) and the
answer (paper number 9) for the respective positions of the
appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1,
4 through 8, 10, 13 through 15, 18 and 19.
We agree with the examiner’s factual findings (answer, pages
3 and 4) that Green discloses all of the structure of claim
1 with the exception of “first and second amplifiers and a
bandpass filter therebetween.” We likewise agree with the
examiner’s finding (answer, page 4) that Fukuden discloses
(Figure 16) “a transmission path in a radio frequency transceiver
that includes amplifiers 211 and 211' and bandpass filter 203'.”
The examiner indicates (answer, page 4) that “[a]lthough Fukuden
doesn’t shows [sic, show] that the bandpass filter 203' is
between the amplifiers 211 and 211', it is considered, in the art
of power amplifiers, that locating the bandpass filter 203'
between the amplifiers 211 and 211' would have the same effect
(eliminate or reduce the noise and/or unnecessary frequency
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