Appeal No. 2001-2694
Application No. 09/103,704
noise signal during the simulation in either a time-voltage or a
time-current pair corresponding to appellants’ “summing device.”
The examiner further points out, again, that Bolcato teaches
adding noise sources in parallel and relies on the desirability
of replacing circuit elements in a simulation with corresponding
circuit elements having added noise sources in parallel. It is
the examiner’s position that such a set of noise sources in
parallel, if added to Popescu’s system “would then include a
stochastic noise source associated with each circuit element that
would add the generated noise current with the deterministic
current values associated with each circuit element” (answer,
pages 7-8), concluding that a “simulation using [sic] made by the
system of Popescu with noise elements added in parallel as
illustrated by Bolcato would have increased accuracy and would
better model the noise process in an actual circuit” (answer,
page 8).
After reviewing the references and the arguments by
appellants and the examiner, we will not sustain the rejection of
claims 1-9 and 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 because it is simply not
clear to us that the references disclose what the examiner
contends they disclose.
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