Appeal No. 1998-2435
Application No. 08/516,216
within the overhead data and ATM services within the payload
data.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Parruck 5,265,096 Nov. 23,
1993
Look et al. (Look) 5,387,927 Feb. 07,
1995
Claims 2 through 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Look in view of Parruck.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 17,
mailed May 7, 1998) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellant's Brief (Paper No.
15, filed March 13, 1998) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 18, filed
June 1, 1998) for appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied
prior art references, and the respective positions articulated
by appellant and the examiner. As a consequence of our
review, we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 2
through 4.
As pointed out by appellant (Brief, pages 9-10), Look
discloses transmitting
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