Appeal 2007-0473
Application 09/969,584
STATEMENT OF CASE
Appellants appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from a final rejection of
claims 1-9. We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).
Appellants invented a device, terminal, and method for controlling
and monitoring the power of the signal from a radio communications
terminal (Specification 2). The power is controlled by lowering the
efficiency of the antenna in a send mode below that in a receive mode.
Efficiency is lowered by decentering the impedance matching of the
antenna.
Representative independent claim 1 under appeal reads as follows:
1. A device for controlling and monitoring the power of signals
sent/received by a radiocommunications terminal including a
send circuit and a receive circuit connected to a send/receive
antenna of the terminal and respectively defining, when in
operation, a send mode and a receive mode and a circuit in a
common part of the connection of the send and receive circuits
to the antenna for matching the send and receive circuits to the
antenna, which device includes means for decentering the
impedance matching of said antenna of said terminal that are
activated only when said device is in send mode, to thereby
achieve a lower antenna efficiency in said send mode than in
said receive mode.
The Examiner rejected claims 1 and 3-9 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e).
The Examiner rejected claim 2 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a).
The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on appeal
is:
Tuttle US 5,970,398 Oct. 19, 1999
Younis US 6,721,368 B1 Apr. 13, 2004
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