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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 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1 and 14 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Hasegawa (USPAP 2010/0201449).
Regarding claim 1, Hasegawa’s Fig. 8 shows filter circuitry (the filter portion of an amplifier circuit to be exact) comprising:
a resistor (Rfb) having a first terminal coupled to an input (In) of the filter circuitry and having a second terminal coupled to an output (Out, via capacitor Cdccut) of the filter circuitry;
a first capacitor (Cdccut) having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the resistor (n2) and having a second terminal coupled to a first power supply line (Vdd, via resistor RL); and
a transistor (SW2) coupled to the second terminal (n2) of the resistor.
Regarding claim 14, Hasegawa’s Fig. 8 shows circuitry comprising:
a resistor (Rfb) having a first terminal coupled to an input terminal (In) and having a second terminal coupled to an output terminal (Out, via capacitor Cdccut);
a first capacitor (Cdccut) having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the resistor (n2) and having a second terminal coupled to a first power supply line (Vdd, via resistor RL); and
a transistor (SW2) coupled to the second terminal (n2) of the resistor.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 18-20 are presently allowed.
Claims 2-13 and 15-17 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/WILLIAM HERNANDEZ/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2836
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