Appeal No. 1998-1259
Application No. 08/264,817
received." Similar language is found in col. 1, lines 14-15 of
Connary which discloses "Selective call radio receivers such
as pagers...." The language "such as" makes clear that the
inventions of MacDonald and Connary can be extended to other
wireless communication devices such as a radiotelephone, and
we consider it to have been well within the ordinary skill of
a skilled artisan to have utilized the wireless communication
devices of MacDonald and Connary in a radiotelephone
environment.
As noted by the examiner (answer, page 5)in the
Background of the Invention, set forth on page 5, lines 24 and
25 of the specification, wireless communication devices are
known to include radiotelephones and pagers. We are
unpersuaded by appellants' assertion with respect to claim 11
that the examiner is improperly using appellants' own teaching
to reject appellants' own claims. The Background of the
Invention set forth in the specification discloses what is
presumed to be known in the prior art. Appellants have not
specifically refuted the examiner's factual finding that
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