Appeal No. 1998-2933
Application 08/439,082
Stouffer 5,049,867 September 17,
1991
Suman et al. (Suman) 5,278,547 January 11,
1994
Claims 1, 2, 4-6, 8-12, and 14-21 stand rejected under3
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over the APA and
Suman. The Examiner finds that Suman discloses a start bit
and unique code before the control signal and concludes that
this would have suggested the desirability of using idling
information in addition to control information in the APA
system (Final Rejection, p. 3). The Examiner states that
"[o]ne of ordinary skill in the art would have readily
recognized using a plurality of bits instead of only one start
bit as in Suman because if a plurality of bits are used the
detection of the activation of the system would be ensured"
(Final Rejection, p. 3).
Claim 13 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over the APA and Suman, further in view of
The statement of the rejection in the Examiner's3
Answer refers to claims 1, 2, 4-12, and 14-20 (Examiner's
Answer, p. 4). This is presumed to be a careless error
because it includes canceled claim 7, and does not include
claim 21. We rely on the statement of the rejection in the
Final Rejection.
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