Appeal No. 2000-1461
Application No. 08/716,905
The examiner relies on the following references:
Thomas 4,038,600 Jul. 26, 1977
Tarantino et al. (Tarantino) 5,099,200 Mar. 24, 1992
Kroeger et al. (Kroeger) 5,404,375 Apr. 04, 1995
Claims 1-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Thomas in
view of Tarantino and Kroeger.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the respective positions of appellant
and the examiner.
OPINION
At the outset, we note that claims 1-7 will stand or fall together, in accordance with
appellant’s grouping of the claims, at page 5 of the principal brief.
It is the examiner’s position that Thomas discloses power control on a satellite
uplink and also discloses a method of measuring distortion in satellite RF transponders.
The examiner recognizes a failure in Thomas regarding the teaching of a PN sequence
generator, a downconverting of the relayed periodic RF signals to baseband in phase (I) and
quadrature phase (Q) signal components, converting those signal components to
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