Appeal No. 2000-1462
Application No. 08/592,427
the communication system. This would have been necessary since a
relay is used to complete a call. The relay acts as a ‘go-
between’ within a communications system thus permitting the calls
to be executed” [Paper No. 7, page 4].
Even assuming that Chia and Tsuda disclose everything
alleged by the examiner, which they do not, the examiner has not
established a reasonable basis for combining the teachings of
these references.
As explained by appellants, at page 14 of the brief, whereas
the prior art communicated between a picocell telecommunication
system and a mobile radio system by using another communication
system or network, and wherein cordless picocell
telecommunication systems have a picocell base station and at
least one picocell mobile station which is allocated to the
picocell base station, the instant invention replaces the
picocell base station by a relay station which is allocated to a
transceiver arrangement within an over-riding cell. The relay
station simultaneously serves for bi-directional communication
between the picocells and the over-riding cells and so a
communication which overlaps cells is possible without
incorporating another communication system or network. This is
made clear by the language of independent claim 1.
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