Appeal No. 1998-2608
Application 08/570,439
On the basis of the collective teachings of both
references, we therefore conclude that it would have been
obvious to have applied the teachings of mobile cell radio
systems well-known in the art as represented by Hamabe (and
Wang as well as far as this rejection is concerned) in the
subscriber fixed station arrangements in Figures 1 and 2 of
Åkerberg. Figures 1 through 3 of this reference contrast land
line and mobile and fixed subscriber stations with respect to
fixed base stations 1. The discussion in the paragraph
bridging columns 1 and 2 of Åkerberg even considers the fixed
radio local loop (FRLL) based subscriber stations as being
analogous to the normal cellular technology represented by the
subscriber mobile stations (SMS 5) represented in Figure 5.
Since the Hamabe and Åkerberg references are utilized in each
of the four separately stated rejections by the examiner, to
the extent any claim on appeal recites a stationary subscriber
station high gain antenna in some form, the applicability of
well-known prior art cellular-base technology to such fixed
station subscriber stations, is clearly suggested, and the
collective teachings of these references meet these features.
The central logic 27 of the base station in Figure 14 of
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