Appeal No. 95-4150
Application No. 08/102,507
The Examiner’s Answer cites the following prior art:
Young 4,706,121 Nov. 10, 1987
Reitmeier 4,746,919 May 24,
1988
OPINION
Claims 15-16, 25-29, 36 and 45 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Young in view of Reitmeier.
Claims 15-16, 25, and 28-29
Claims 15-16, 25, and 28-29 stand or fall together
because appellants have presented no arguments for separate
patentability under 37 CFR § 1.192.
We find that Young teaches all of the steps of claim 15.
As to the first step, Young transmits an information signal
(television broadcast) from a first transmitter 133. As to
the second step, Young transmits a control signal (shown in
Figure 3 as a wavy line between remote control transmitter 116
and remote receiver 118) from a second transmitter 116, said
control signal being indicative of a predetermined target
condition. The recited “predetermined target condition” in
Young is the state of receiving a preselected program. Column
7, line 51, through column 8, line 18.
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