Appeal No. 97-3059
Application No. 08/251,014
supplementary module is connectable to the basic module in
order to operate in either the first or the second mode. This
describes independent claim 1.
Independent claim 11 allows for connecting both
supplemental modules to the basic module together.
Independent claim 16 describes the same invention as
independent claim 1 but in a somewhat different manner,
claiming “a primary supplemental module” to be connected to
the basic module and that the primary supplemental module is
selected from a group consisting of the first and second
supplemental modules.
Independent claim 20 recites the basic module and only a
first supplemental module detachably connected to the basic
module. This claim, however, makes it clear that the basic
module “is incapable of transmitting or receiving...unless the
first supplemental module or a second alternative supplemental
module is operably connected thereto.”
In applying the art to claim 20, the examiner contends
that Mizikovsky discloses everything but for the basic module
being “incapable of transmitting or receiving...” The
examiner then relies on Tattari for such a teaching and
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