Appeal No. 96-0974
Application 08/024,299
switching capabilities of the system as well as
facilitating system modifications." [Answer at
4-5.]
As appellants correctly note, Kohno does not actually teach a
multi-core cable, as required by claim 3. Instead, Kohno
describes transmission paths A and B as "transmission lines"
(e.g., col. 2, lines 39-40). Kohno does not indicate that
these lines may be included in a single cable. The examiner
has not asserted that or explained why it would have been
obvious to house both of Kohno’s transmission lines in a
single cable.
Nor has the examiner adequately demonstrated the
requisite motivation for combining the disparate teachings of
Kohno and Lebby. As appellants correctly note, Kohno’s and
Lebby’s transmission and fault correction techniques cannot be
combined because they are incompatible with each other.
Whereas Kohno simultaneously transmits data over all (i.e.,
both) available transmission paths A and B and selects the
data from normal path at the receiving end, Lebby transmits
data over fewer than all of the available transmission paths
and replaces a faulty path with an unused path at the
transmitting end. As a result, modifying Kohno in view of
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