Appeal No. 1996-0427
Application 08/210,224
For each ground of rejection which appel-
lant contests and which applies to a group
of two or more claims, the Board shall
select a
single claim from the group and shall de-
cide the appeal as to the ground of rejec-
tion on the basis of that claim alone un-
less a statement is included that the
claims of the group do not stand or fall
together and, in the argument under
paragraph (c)(8) of this section, appellant
explains why the claims of the group are
believed to be separately patentable.
Merely pointing out differences in what the
claims cover is not an argument as to why
the claims are separately patentable.
Since Appellants have provided the same argument for claims 1,
2, 5, 10, 11, 14, 19 and 20, we will, thereby, consider the
Appellant's claims 1, 2, 5, 10, 11, 14, 19 and 20 as standing
or falling together and we will treat claim 1 as a
representative claim of the group.
On page 12 of the brief, Appellants argue that
Yamamura fails to teach or suggest "means responsive to an
initiation of turn on of said power regulator for generating a
signal com- prising a sequence of a predetermined number of
pulses." Appellants argue that the predetermined number of
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