Appeal No. 1998-1696
Application No. 08/562,197
at the instant claimed subject matter, we will not sustain the
rejection of claims 2 through 12, 14 and 15 under 35 U.S.C. §
103. We note, with regard to claims 8 and 14, that Williamson
and Yeh, respectively, do not supply the deficiencies noted
supra with regard to Fry.
While we have reversed the rejections of the claims
because, in our view, no prima facie case of obviousness was
satisfactorily established by the examiner, we note, for
completeness, that we do not agree with appellant’s contention
that there is no teaching of pre-existing interior telephone
lines in Fry. It would appear to us that lines 20' and 21'
are such interior telephone lines. But, even if not, it would
have been well known to artisans that subscriber’s premises
all have
the recited pre-existing interior telephone lines.
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