Appeal No. 95-3913
Application 07/910,219
switching communication paths among said
terminals;
a press-talk trunk coupled to receive said
press-talk signals from said terminals and
generate a notification signal when a press-talk
signal from any one of said terminals is active;
and
a central controller means coupled to said time
division switching system for controlling said
time division switching system to cause said time
division switching system to send voice signals
from said one of said terminals to all other of
said terminals, responsive to said notification
signal.
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Coviello 4,203,011 May 13, 1980
Rasmussen et al. (Rasmussen) 4,754,476 Jun. 28, 1988
Claims 1 through 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Coviello and Rasmussen.2
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellants and the
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Examiner, reference is made to the briefs and answers for the
In a letter mailed March 21, 1995, the Examiner withdrew the rejection2
of claims 20 through 24.
Appellants filed an appeal brief on July 27, 1994. We will refer to3
this appeal brief as simply the brief. Appellants filed a reply appeal brief
on January 4, 1995. We will refer to this reply appeal brief as the reply
brief. The Examiner responded to Appellants' arguments presented in the reply
brief with a letter, mailed October 11, 1996. Thus, the reply brief has been
entered and considered.
The Examiner responded to the brief with an Examiner's answer, mailed4
December 14, 1994. We will refer to the Examiner's answer as simply the
answer. We note that the answer contains a new ground of rejection rejecting
claims 14 through 19 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Coviello
and Rasmussen. The Examiner responded to the reply brief with a letter, dated
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