Appeal 2007-0473
Application 09/969,584
As we have already found, Tuttle explicitly describes means for
impedance matching or mismatching and that impedance matching
can be used “to tune or intentionally detune a transmitting and/or
receiving antenna circuit.” See Tuttle at column 5, lines 33-46 and
column 6, lines 21-23. The language at column 6 is a teaching of
eight alternative circuit functions (1) tuning a transmitting antenna, (2)
tuning a receiving antenna, (3) tuning both the transmitting and
receiving antenna, (4) detuning a transmitting antenna, (5) detuning a
receiving antenna, (6) detuning both the transmitting and receiving
antenna, (7) tuning the transmitting and detuning the receiving
antenna, and (8) detuning the transmitting and tuning the receiving
antenna.
Contrary to Appellants’ contentions, Tuttle teaches (i) a decentering
(i.e. detuning) device which is activated only in the transmit mode
(Alternative 4), and (ii) achieving an efficiency in the transmit mode
which is less than in the receive mode (Alternatives 4 and 8).
Appellants have not established that the Examiner erred with respect
to this contention.
Further, the fact that Tuttle also describes reducing power
consumption in the receive mode in no way establishes that the
Examiner erred in rejecting the claims given that alternatives 4 and 8
do not make use of this feature.
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