Appeal No. 2003-0522
Application No. 09/324,237
In the context of all claims on appeal, there is no
recitation in the body of the claims of anything being harmonic
nor is there any recitation of a mixer or a harmonic mixer of any
type even though the preamble indicates such of each claim.
Thus, there is no recitation in any of the claims on appeal of
any (harmonic) frequencies that are mixed in any manner
harmonically or otherwise. As such, the scope of the applicable
prior art is significantly expanded.
Among the independent claims on appeal, there is also no
recitation of any interconnectability of the recited elements to
form any single circuit. For example, there is no recitation of
the manner in which an input port and the output port recited
separately are connected to the other recited elements of the
complementary transistor pair coupled together. Also, in claims
2 and 8, the respective output port is noted, but it is not
connected to any other recited elements. In claim 8 as well, in
the “first filter” clause the “said port”, is indefinite since it
is not stated whether the language refers to the previously
recited input port or output port. As in the other earlier noted
claims, claim 10 recites an output port, but it is not connected
to any other circuit element. The recitation in the “first
filter” clause of said “output terminal” has no antecedent basis,
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