Appeal No. 95-2980
Application 08/048,343
Appellant has appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1, 3 to 6, 8 to 12, 14 and 16 to 19,
which constitute all the claims pending in the application.
Representative claim 9 is reproduced below:
9. An integrity monitor for TCAS mutual suppression
comprising:
enable suppression means for enabling suppression;
interrogation means for interrogating own transponder,
said interrogation means interrogating at regular intervals
for discovering intermittent suppression failures;
decision means for deciding whether a reply has been
received from said interrogation means; and,
transmission means for transmitting results received from
said decision means.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Stelling 4,970,510 Nov. 13,
1990
Marino et al. (Marino) 5,177,447 Jan. 05,
1993
Ybarra et al. (Ybarra) 5,208,591 May 04,
1993
(filed Apr. 19, 1991)
All claims on appeal stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103. The examiner applies the collective teachings of
appellant’s admitted prior art at specification pages 1 and 2,
further in view of Stelling and Marino as to claims 1, 3 to 5,
2
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