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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement filed on 08/12/2024 has been considered and
placed in the application file.
Double Patenting
Claims 1-13 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-21 of U.S. Patent No. 12,088,252. Although the conflicting claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because all limitations/features of the present claims are present in the patented claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant’s disclosure.
Testi et al. ,U.S. 9,813,033, discloses (please see Fig. 4 and related text for details) an analogous circuit, namely a tank circuit (see LC circuit disposed between the differential output of Fig. 4), comprising:
a tunable resonator subcircuit (LC circuit disposed between the differential output of Fig. 4) having an effective parallel resistance that varies with tuning of the tunable resonator subcircuit; and
a variable negative-resistance subcircuit (M6/M7/M8 of Fig. 4) coupled in parallel to the tunable resonator subcircuit, wherein the variable negative-resistance subcircuit is configured to provide a variable negative resistance.
However, the above reference lacks the claimed/details “a control circuit wherein the control circuit is configured to increase the negative resistance presented by the variable negative-resistance subcircuit in response to a change in the tunable resonator subcircuit that lowers the resonant frequency of the tunable resonator subcircuit”.
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/HIEU P NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2843
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