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Ex parte SHINBASHI et al. - Page 3Legal Research Home > Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences > 1997 > Ex parte SHINBASHI et al. - Page 3
Appeal No. 95-3710
Application 07/621,005
stand-by unit and a switching unit, said electrical
wiring arrangement providing electrical connections in
parallel
to pairs of the first and second locations and between
all the second locations and a third location
provided for the common stand-by unit, the switching
unit, when mounted at one of the second locations,
providing switchable connection between the input and
output lines for a corresponding working unit and the
common stand-by unit in response to a signal.
The Examiner does not rely on any references.
Claims 6 through 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly
point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which Appel-
lants regard as the invention. Claims 6 through 8 and 19 through
23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Appellants' prior art Figures 2 and 3.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellants or the
Examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answers for 2 3
2Appellants filed an appeal brief on May 2, 1994. We will
refer to this appeal brief as simply the brief. Appellants filed
a reply appeal brief on September 28, 1994. We will refer to
this reply appeal brief as the reply brief. The Examiner
responded to the reply brief in the supplemental Examiner’s
answer, mailed November 28, 1994, thereby entering the reply
brief into the record.
3The Examiner responded to the brief with an Examiner's
answer, mailed July 26, 1994. We will refer to the Examiner's
answer as simply the answer. The Examiner responded to the reply
brief with supplemental Examiner's answer mailed November 28,
1994. On March 11, 1995, the application was remanded to the
Examiner. In response to the remand, the Examiner provided a
second supplemental Examiner's answer, mailed March 18, 1996.
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