Appeal No. 2002-0880
Application No. 09/183,214
a test apparatus operable to be connected to the circuit connection and
the ground connection of the device, the test apparatus further operably
connected to receive the control signal including the retrieved set of test
parameters from the processor, the test apparatus operable to perform a
first test based on the first set of test parameters.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Winkler 4,168,527 Sep. 18, 1979
Amazeen et al. (Amazeen) 5,043,657 Aug. 27, 1991
Bald et al. (Bald) 6,011,398 Jan. 04, 2000
(filed Apr. 23, 1998)
Rejections at Issue
Claims 1 and 2 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by
Winkler.
Claims 3, 4, 6-11, 16 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Winkler and Bald.
Claims 5, 12 and 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Winkler, Bald and Amazeen.
In the Examiner’s answer, the Examiner has indicated that claims 18 through 22
are allowed and claim 15 is objected to as being dependent on a rejected base claim,
but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all limitations of the
base claim and any intervening claims. See pages 1 and 2 of the answer.
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