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Appeal No. 95-3753
Application No. 08/109,983
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 59. In an Amendment After Final (paper number 17), claim
53 was amended.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus
for transmitting a signal that varies as a function of time. The
transmitted signal has scalar and vector potentials, but without
an electromagnetic field.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A method of communicating information that changes as a
function of time from a first site to a second site comprising
transmitting a signal that varies as a function of time in
accordance with the information from the first site to the second
site, the signal having scalar and vector potentials without
including an electromagnetic field, receiving the transmitted
signal at the second site, and detecting the information from the
signal as received at the second site.
No references were relied on by the examiner.
Claims 1 through 59 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101
because allegedly the invention as disclosed is inoperative and
therefore lacks utility.
Claims 1 through 59 stand rejected under the first paragraph
of 35 U.S.C. § 112 because allegedly the specification fails to
provide an enabling disclosure and, therefore, fails to
adequately teach one skilled in the art how to make and/or use
the invention without resort to undue experimentation.
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