Appeal No. 2001-1955
Application 08/989,917
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A delay element, comprising:
an input that receives an input signal,
an output,
a plurality of delay stages mutually interconnected in a
cascaded relationship, each stage imposing an incremental delay
upon the input signal when included in a path of propagation of
the input signal between the input and the output, and
a second input that receives a selection signal, the
selection signal determining how many of the delay stages are
included in the path of propagation.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
McKinney 5,389,843 Feb. 14, 1995
Appellants note at the bottom of page 2 of the principal
brief on appeal that a second amendment after final was filed
with the brief. As noted at page 1 of the reply brief, the
examiner has not indicated in the answer the entry of this
amendment. For purposes of rendering a decision on this appeal,
we consider this amendment to have been entered since it appears
to us not to affect the nature of the remaining rejections of the
claimed on appeal.
As noted earlier, there is no rejection before us of claim
30 on appeal. Appellants correctly note at the top of page 2 of
the principal brief on appeal that claims 1 and 19-23 stand
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