Ex Parte GANESAN et al - Page 4




          Appeal No. 2000-0612                                                        
          Application No. 08/583,357                                                  


                                       OPINION                                        
               We have carefully considered the claims, the applied prior             
          art references, and the respective positions articulated by                 
          appellants and the examiner.  As a consequence of our review, we            
          will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1, 3 through 17,           
          19, and 20.                                                                 
               Independent claims 1 and 13 recite a first communication               
          channel and a plurality of long range pagers which share a second           
          communication channel.  The examiner admits (Answer, page 6) that           
          Driessen and Okada fail to disclose the long range pagers sharing           
          a communication channel.  The examiner turns to Lucas to remedy             
          this deficiency.  Specifically, the examiner asserts (Answer,               
          page 6) that "Lucas, teaches the utilization a single channel or            
          wherein the transmitters share one communication channel."  The             
          examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to modify the            
          combination of Driessen and Okada "by utilizing a single channel            
          for all the long range pagers as taught by Lucas in order to                
          minimize the amount of interference caused by the communication             
          system."                                                                    
               However, as pointed out by appellants (Brief, page 10), to             
          modify Driessen with the teachings of Okada, the examiner states            


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