Appeal No. 2000-1461
Application No. 08/716,905
on a satellite wherein the wideband RF signal is generated by modulating the output of a PN
sequence generator. There is no suggestion in any of the applied references for employing
any wideband teaching that Kroeger may have to Thomas
and/or Tarantino which are not concerned with wideband RF signals. Moreover, while
Thomas discloses a distortion analyzer 24, that analyzer measures power level of the third
order intermodulation product to determine the power level of the input signal to the
transponder 20 [see column 4, lines 22-42, of Thomas] and there is no suggestion in
Thomas that distortion in satellite RF transponders, in the manner claimed, is contemplated
by Thomas, or any of the other applied references.
The “wideband RF signal” is part of each of the instant claims and it is important that
such wideband periodic RF signal is transmitted to the transponders on the satellite,
received at the transponder which then retransmits the wideband RF signals and said relayed
wideband RF signals are then downconverted as claimed. There is absolutely no disclosure
or suggestion of these interrelated elements and/or steps in the combination of applied
references and the examiner has not convinced us otherwise.
The examiner’s decision rejecting claims 1-7 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
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