Appeal No. 1998-1471 Page 7
Application No. 08/108,510
Here, the examiner admits, “Murai lacks a teaching of
turning ON the receiver after the receiver has been manually
shut OFF via switch 710.” (Examiner’s Answer at 4.) For its
part, the reference discloses that its paging apparatus
operates only when its manual power “switch 710 is turned on
....” Col. 5, ll. 22-23.
The examiner fails to show that Morishima remedies this
defect. Although the reference teaches automatically turning
on the main power of a selective call receiver, it does not
turn on the receiver when the receiver has been manually shut
off. To the contrary, Morishima discloses that the receiver
operates only when its manual power switch 710 is turned on.
Specifically, “the main power of the receiver can be turned
on/off automatically ... as long as the power switch (7) is
left on.” Translation, p. 12. Similarly, “the main power of
the receiver can be turned on automatically ... as long as the
power switch (7) is left on.” Id. at 14.
Because Murai and Morishima require a manual power switch
to be left on to operate their paging apparatus and selective
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