Appeal No. 2004-1996
Application No. 09/399,606
does, indeed, sense “power conditions,” but this sensing of power conditions is not the
same as the claimed detection of an occurrence or non-occurrence of a supply of power
to the power supply output means. The microprocessor in Chang senses “conditions,”
or modes, and the microprocessor then supplies the power (either a high or low voltage
control signal) at output ports of the microprocessor in accordance with those sensed
modes. This is shown in Table 1 at column 4 of Chang. However, the microprocessor
is not detecting, or sensing, occurrence or non-occurrence of a supply of power; rather,
the microprocessor is supplying the power based on detected “conditions.”
Thus, since an important claim limitation, viz., detection means for detecting an
occurrence or non-occurrence of a supply of power..., is not disclosed or suggested by
Chang, contrary to the examiner’s allegation, and since neither Leshem nor Bonneville
provides for this deficiency in Chang, the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-6 under
35 U.S.C. §103 must fail.
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