Appeal No. 1997-0884
Application 08/260,148
a prima facie case of obviousness. The rejection of claims 1-
5 over the APA and Lindmayer is reversed.
The combination of the APA and Bachhuber also does not
render the claimed subject matter obvious. Bachhuber
discloses a remote control system with separate transmitter
and receiver. The Examiner does not point out what part of
Bachhuber is relied on for the specific limitations of the
claims, which it makes it difficult for us to review the
rejection. Bachhuber discloses that there must be a way to
initialize and re-initialize the transmitter-receiver system
(e.g., col. 10, lines 1-7), but this does not address the
steps of setting a flag or reconfiguring an integrated circuit
as a receiver or transmitter. In response to Appellants'
argument that Bachhuber does not suggest setting a flag, the
Examiner refers to Lindmayer (EA6), which does not answer the
question. We find no teaching or suggestion in Bachhuber that
the receiver may be reconfigured as a transmitter or that a
flag is used to indicate that the code has been learned while
in a learn receive mode to prevent sending a learned code.
The Examiner has failed to establish a prima facie case of
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