Appeal No. 2000-1462
Application No. 08/592,427
bidirectional communication and the use of a relay station as a
go-between, e.g.., “the relay station is connectable by
telecommunications to a transmitting/receiving arrangement
contained in the higher-ordered cell.”
Claim 1 contains many specific limitations and the examiner
has not set forth, in any meaningful way, exactly how the Chia
and Tsudo references are being applied to the instant claim
language. Other than generally alleging that Chia discloses the
first four lines of the claims and that Tsudo discloses the
remainder of the claim, pointing to Figure 2 of Chia and to
Figure 1 of Tsudo, the examiner has not indicated what elements
in the applied prior art correspond to the specific elements of
claim 1.
While the examiner has alleged that it is “well known” to
include in a cordless system a relay as taught by Tsuda, the
examiner has not established, by any degree of reasonableness,
that the relay taught by Tsuda corresponds to the relay station
set forth in independent claim 1. Therefore, even if it were
obvious to insert a relay station, as claimed, into the system of
Chia, there would still be no suggestion, by Tsuda, of the
claimed relay station and so the examiner has not established the
obviousness of the instant claimed subject matter.
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