Appeal No. 97-3059
Application No. 08/251,014
at least not for any articulated by the examiner, for the
artisan to modify Mizikovsky in such a manner as to make unit
1 inoperable unless connected to another module.
Looking at the proposed combination from the point of
view of Tattari, the radio telephone taught therein would not
be a reconfigurable modular multiple system radio telephone.
Once constructed, the radio telephone of Tattari is a
complete, finished product. There would be no module
interchange as in the instant claimed invention.
Moreover, each of the independent claims requires, in one
way or another, that the basic module contain circuitry common
to the operation of the telephone in both modes. Nothing in
either of the applied references suggests this claimed
limitation. Tattari is not directed to dual mode radio
telephones but, rather, to the construction of a radio
telephone. Once that telephone is constructed, it operates in
whatever signal mode for which it was designed. In
Mizikovsky, the “basic module,” 1, has circuitry which permits
complete operation by that unit alone. Not all of its
circuitry is common to both modes of operation, as required by
the instant claims. In response to this reasoning, the
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