Appeal No. 97-2758 Page 5
Application No. 07/859,962
While the examiner contends that there is no disclosure
of any particular device for performing the claimed method, it
is not necessary to disclose such a device if it is otherwise
clear that the skilled artisan would have known how to achieve
the claimed subject matter. As is clear from the Bakhuizen
declaration and the articles referred to therein, the skilled
artisan clearly knew how to add an offset (as per Figure 2 of
the instant disclosure) in the extended conventional
transmission mode. Therefore, it does not appear to us that
it would have been any burden on the artisan to modify the
offset so as to provide an offset as shown in Figure 3 of the
instant disclosure.
With regard to the examiner’s perception of a
synchronization problem, we agree with appellants that such a
perceived problem appears to be non-existent since the
invention, as disclosed and claimed, merely requires an
additional offset the provision of which the skilled artisan,
once directed to provide for such, would have been quite
familiar. We are unconvinced of any synchronization problem
occurring as a result of this additional offset.
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