Appeal No. 96-3618
Application 08/004,598
the Examiner's position is taken as admitted. The rejection
of claim 77 is sustained.
6. Claims 1, 5, and 46: § 103(a) over Gillig and Fujii
Gillig discloses the limitations of claim 1 except for
the limitation of "a second base transceiver functional to
provide telephonic connection with a cellular telephone system
independent of the first base transceiver." The Examiner
finds that Fujii "teaches the use of a base telephone
apparatus [referring to figure 5A] . . . in a cordless
telephone system for the purpose of increasing the spectrum
efficiency in the cordless telephone system" (2dSEA49) and
concludes that it would have been obvious "to incorporate the
use of a base telephone apparatus includes [sic] the second
base transceiver as taught by Fujii, et al in the cordless
telephone system of Gilling, et al for the purpose of
increasing the spectrum efficiency in the cordless telephone
system in order [to] form in one piece an article which has
formerly been formed in two pieces and put together" (2SEA50).
We will not sustain this rejection. Figure 5A of Fujii
shows an inner base station of a cellular system having a
plurality of transceivers and an outer base station having a
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