Appeal No. 95-5039
Application 07/979,018
Under the circumstances of this particular case, we
REMAND the application to the examiner for the following
purposes:
to consider and cite upon a FORM PTO-892 the patent to
Wang et al specified above,
to assess the subject matter of all pending claims
(claims 2, 4 through 6, 8, 14, 16 through 18, 25, 27, 28, 30,
33, 34, 36 through 42, and 52 through 61) in light of the newly
discovered patent in conjunction with other known prior art, 2
and to take appropriate action; and
to take appropriate action on the “INFORMATION
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT” (Paper No. 21) in accordance with 37 CFR
§§ 1.97 and 1.98.
2The office action dated August 12, 1993 (Paper No. 4)
lists as attachments: 1. PTO-892 and 2. PTO-1449. While the
referenced PTO-1449 is present in the application file, the
PTO-892 citing the art made of record by the examiner cannot be
found. We note the Leighton et al. patent (column 3, line 33
through 61) cited by appellant on the PTO-1449, and the indi-
cation by appellant in the present specification (pages 2
through 4) that both encryption and signal compression are known.
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