Appeal No. 96-3618
Application 08/004,598
power level "substantially higher" than the cordless base
station.
The Examiner finds that Gillig does not expressly teach
that the cordless base station contains two transceivers. The
Examiner finds that the community cordless base station 188
must have multiple transceivers or a multiplexing scheme. The
Examiner states that it was "well known in the art to have
multiple transceivers within a base station as evidenced by
Yorita and therefore, it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention to use
multiple transceivers in the base station in order to service
more than one party at a given time" (EA13-14). We agree with
the Examiner's rationale, which is also unchallenged by
Appellant. It is also noted that the cordless base station
180 must have two transceivers: one for transmitting and
receiving over the telephone line to the telephone company and
one for transmitting and receiving over the wireless channel
to the handset. The combination of Gillig and Yorita
establishes a prima facie case of obviousness.
Appellant argues with respect to claim 30 that the
feature of the second wireless telephone base station having a
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