Appeal No. 1998-3076
Application 08/303,046
Based upon the foregoing, we agree with the examiner that
the broadly recited limitations of claims 16 through 21 and 33
through 35 and 37 read on the teachings of Bilas. In claim
16, the “branches for distributing power within said system to
various loads” is broad enough to read on the exit power lines
14 in Bilas, and the “at least one branch for connection to a
power supply” is broad enough to read on the input power lines
12 in Bilas. Any one of the circuit breakers 20 in Bilas is
connected
to a node in the load center 10 “for selectably functionally
controlling power flow between said power supply and load
branches.” The node means of claim 16 is not described as a
“multimodular multicomponent” subsystem (reply brief, page 2).
The circuit breakers 20 in Bilas provide “over current
protection” to the loads (claims 17 and 20) (brief, pages 14
and 15). Each of the bus boards 16 and 18 in Bilas functions
as a backplane/bus bar, and a plurality of nodes are in the
bus boards. The programmable controller 32 in Bilas (Figure
1a) is “at least one control module for controlling
performance of selected functions, having a generally planar
side with means thereon for complementally electrically
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