Appeal No. 1998-2608
Application 08/570,439
through 16 have been considered. However, appellant merely
lists certain features recited of each the claims 3 through 5
and continues this same line of reasoning regarding the
alleged deficiencies of the mobile cellular system of Hamabe
integrating with the fixed station cellular system of Åkerberg
which has been addressed earlier in this opinion. Even though
Duque-Anton is a mobile cellular-type system, his teachings
obviously would have been applicable to a fixed-base system
for the same reasons outlined earlier in this opinion.
Lastly, we turn to the two separate rejections of claims
2 and 6 through 10 under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We agree with the
examiner's view as to the obviousness of claims 2 and 6 in
view of the combined teachings and showings of Hamabe,
Åkerberg and Ohteru. In addition to our earlier discussions
in this opinion with respect to Hamabe and Åkerberg, the
abstract of Ohteru is the best representation of the substance
of the teachings of this reference, which clearly indicates
that various sensing or measuring operations occur in using
various polling signals or control signals of the type claimed
that are periodically sent from the control station and the
respective base stations comparable to what is done in a
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