Appeal No. 2006-1049
Application No. 09/667,826
selectively electrically connecting said circuit elements into the
detector readout circuit in response to stored offset correction values)
which distinguished over a potential application of references Lung
and Masarik et al. Applicant did not present on the record a counter
statement or comment as to the examiner's reasons for allowance, and
permitted the claims to issue. The omitted limitation is thus
established as relating to subject matter previously surrendered.
83. The Examiner further reasoned as follows (see Final Office Action
entered January 17, 2002, page 3):
The reissue claim 53 deletes a limitation ("capacitors") from the
patent claims. Therefore, the reissue claims are broader than the patent
claims in the aspect of the electrical connection between the sample
node and a reference voltage. The broader aspect of the reissue claims
relates to subject matter that applicant previously surrendered during
the prosecution of the original application. The limitation
("capacitors") omitted in the reissue claims was present in the claims
of the original application (claim 32). The examiner's reasons for
allowance in the original application stated that it was that limitation
("the means for correcting specified by independent claim 2, 24, 33 or
37" where the means for correcting specified a plurality of capacitors
connected between said sample node and a reference voltage and a
corresponding plurality of switches coupled in series with each
respective capacitor and said reference voltage) which distinguished
over a potential application of references Lung and Masarik et al.
Applicant did not present on the record a counter statement or
comment as to the examiner's reasons for allowance, and permitted
the claims to issue. The omitted limitation is thus established as
relating to subject matter previously surrendered.
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