Appeal No. 97-2879
Application No. 08/507,181
said terminal including means for storing messages addressed
to said receiver, and means for transmitting said messages to
said receiver in response to the receipt of said
identification number.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Kawasaki et al. 4,736,461 Apr. 5,
1988
Blonder 5,239,521 Aug. 24,
1993
Stoller 5,266,942 Nov. 30,
1993
(filed Aug. 21,
1991)
Claims 16 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Kawasaki in view of Blonder and
Stoller.
Reference is made to the brief and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 16 and 18 is
reversed.
In Kawasaki, a portable unit (Figure 4) transmits an
acknowledgment signal in response to a call signal from a base
station (Figure 2). All communication between the portable
unit and the base station is via radio signals. According to
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