Appeal No. 95-1865
Application 07/970,816
However, as the examiner realized, Hayashi does not teach any phase-offset and so it does
not provide for the deficiency noted supra with regard to the prior art of Figures 1-4. Moreover,
since Hayashi does not appear to be directed to “bidirectionally communicating data signals,” as
required by the instant claims [Hayashi appears to disclose a single communication channel], it is
not understood how or why the artisan would have been led to apply the teachings of Hayashi to
the prior art bidirectional communication system of the Figure 1-4 prior art. More specifically,
since the instant claims require specific interaction between transceivers in different channels and
Hayashi is concerned only with a single channel, the artisan would have found nothing in Hayashi
which would have led him/her to provide a phase delay means for applying a receive clock to a
second transceiver of a second channel medium delayed from a receive clock of a second
transceiver of a first channel medium.
The references to Bovee and Balaban, applied by the examiner for their teachings of an
A/D converter for application against claims 9 and 14, fail to provide for the deficiencies noted
supra with regard to Hayashi and the prior art of Figures 1-4.
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