Appeal No. 1997-3060
Application No. 08/181,833
Nevertheless, we will reverse the examiner’s rejections
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 because, in our view, the examiner has
failed to establish a prima facie case of obviousness.
In applying Bendixen, which deals with a cellular
telephone system, especially for coupling a plurality of
telephones or local units to a remote land line telephone
system, the examiner identifies, generally, various claimed
elements. Taking instant claim 1 as an example and applying
Bendixen, it is seen in Figure 3 of Bendixen that control unit
and audio units 64 and 66 may be considered the claimed
“branch telephone exchange system.” It has an input/output
port at the antenna/radio telephone side of the figure and it
has a plurality of input/outport ports (the claimed “set of
second input/output ports”) on the right side, each port
leading to/from a local unit. Since the left side of the
figure shows bidirectional arrows at the antenna indicative of
transmission and receipt to/from a base station and a remote
land line telephone system, as broadly claimed, it is not
unreasonable to deduce that the wireless connection may be to
“telephone lines from the local telephone company,” as
claimed.
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