Appeal No. 96-1386
Application 08/030,937
control means which provides a first discrete mode of operation
which transmits audible messages. Appellants agree that Brown
discusses a push-to-talk switch but argues that the teaching does
not suggest a microphone or a control means to provide a first
discrete mode of operation that transmits audible messages in
which the first mode of operation is discrete from the second
mode of operation that transmits video information as recited in
Appellants' claims. Appellants provide an affidavit in which
Daniel P. Brown, the inventor of the Brown patent, states that
the Brown patent does not contain a teaching of a microphone to
be included with the radio 22. Mr. Brown also states that the
push-to-talk switch is triggered electronically and is not
triggered by a switch in a microphone as done in the typical
communication units. Appellants also provide an affidavit in
which Gary Grube states that the Brown patent teaches a way to
use a typical and standard two-way FM radio to transmit video
data, as versus voice. Mr. Grube states that the Brown patent
teaches that the push-to-talk switch is selectively enabled so
that the data is ready and available for transmission.
In our own careful review of Brown, we find that Brown does
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