Appeal No. 95-4135
Application 07/772,998
said circuit breakers includes means for interrupting and
establishing an associated current path and includes decoding
means for decoding its designated coded signal and returning a
response signal;
a data communication bus, arranged adjacent the
plurality of circuit breakers and within the distribution panel,
for carrying coded signals to and from the associated circuit
breaker’s decoding means; and
a plurality of coupling means, each of said coupling
means located within the distribution panel and physically
connected to the data communication bus and an associated circuit
breaker and arranged for coupling the associated circuit
breaker’s decoding means to the data communication bus.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Geyer et al. (Geyer) 3,842,249 Oct. 15, 1974
Breimesser et al. (Breimesser) 4,175,238 Nov. 20, 1979
Borona 4,308,511 Dec. 29, 1981
Wilson et al. (Wilson) 4,338,647 July 6, 1982
Miller et al. (Miller) 4,535,332 Aug. 13, 1985
Brifman et al. (Brifman) 4,556,882 Dec. 3, 1985
Hedman et al. (Hedman) 4,819,180 Apr. 4, 1989
Brodsky et al. (Brodsky) 4,918,566 Apr. 17, 1990
Claims 1 through 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Borona, Brifman, Geyer, Brodsky,
Breimesser, Miller and Hedman.
Claims 7 through 9, 11 through 17 and 21 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the references
applied to claims 1 through 6 in further view of Wilson.
Reference is made to the brief and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
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