Appeal No. 96-3205
Application No. 08/157,198
response to a start bit, step d) of the claim clearly recites
a monitoring rate sufficiently high so that receipt of an
information entity is “immediately detected during receipt of
said start bit” [emphasis ours].
We find no teaching or suggestion of such a limitation in
Ryckeboer. The indication by Ryckeboer [column 4, lines 32-
35] that a “sampling rate is set at a higher frequency to make
sure that the synchronization is adequate during the
transmission of one character” clearly does not suggest a
“monitoring rate sufficiently high so that receipt of one of
said information entities is immediately detected during
receipt of said start bit,” as claimed.
Accordingly, we will not sustain the rejection of claims
51 through 62 under 35 U.S.C. 103. The references to Tanaka,
Metcalfe and Botzenhardt, applied by the examiner for certain
features in various dependent claims, do not provide for the
deficiency of Ryckeboer noted supra.
The examiner’s decision is reversed.
REVERSED
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