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          Appeal No. 96-0309                                                          
          Application 08/135,370                                                      

          correct channel.  It is not clear how this can be done using                
          switch 7 since switch 7 opens and closes a single line output               
          from juxtaposition circuit 5.  We question whether the                      
          juxtaposition circuit 5 should have two outputs, one for                    
          frequency F1 and one for frequency F2, which are alternatingly              
          selected by a switch under control of the circuit MAMRT.  This              
          would still not solve the problem of how to tranmit different               
          information simultaneously on two different channels.                       
               Third, if our understanding of the operation of the                    
          invention is correct then the phrase "simultaneous                          
          transmission" in the phrase "frequency dispersion means for                 
          distributing the information content of two successive ones of              
          said parcels for simultaneous transmission as signals in time               
          multiplexed slots of two of said channels respectively"                     
          (claims 26 and 39) is misdescriptive because the transmission               
          is not simultaneous in both channels.  Also, it would seem                  
          that the description in the specification that "[s]imultaneity              
          in time occurs between the various channels: U1  is0                            
                              1   0        1                                          
          simultaneous with U1 , D4  with D4 , etc." (specification,                  
                                                         0       1                    
          page 4, lines 31-32) is misdescriptive since U1  and U1  are                



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