Appeal No. 1998-2693 Page 6
Application No. 08/569,976
The examiner alleges, "switch 44 in Berry et al. is
manually operable to provide full control of the receiver; one
skilled in the art would have recognized full control to
include 'enabling and disabling the receiver's stored
addresses.'" (Examiner's Answer at 7.) The appellant argues
that in Berry "there is no command to change the address to
which the receiver responds." (Appeal Br. at 4.)
Claims 1 and 15 specify in pertinent part the following
limitations: "multiple storage locations containing stored
Selectable receiver addresses; a manually operable selection
means located on said receiver for enabling and disabling
stored receiver addresses ...." Similarly, claims 16 and 17
specify in pertinent part the following limitations: "storing
multiple receiver addresses in each one of the receivers, each
stored receiver address associated with a different receiver
user;
receiving the signals with the RF receivers; ... and manually
selectively enabling and disabling at said receiver the stored
receiver addresses thereby selectively changing the data
supplied to the receivers for each user." Accordingly, claims
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