Appeal No. 1998-2933
Application 08/439,082
Claims 11-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as failing to particularly point out and distinctly
claim the subject matter which Appellant regards as his
invention. Claim 11 recites that "said control unit and said
signal receiver are continuously placed in the activated
condition when said control unit detects an electric field of
the received remote control signal" which is inconsistent with
the later recitation that "the signal processing unit does not
include an electric field detector" as well as with
Appellant's description of what he regards as his invention.
CONCLUSION
The rejections of claims 1, 2, 4-6, and 8-21 are
reversed.
A new ground of rejection has been entered against
claims 11-20 pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b).
This decision contains a new ground of rejection pursuant
to 37 CFR § 1.196(b)(amended effective Dec. 1, 1997, by final
rule notice, 62 Fed. Reg. 53,131, 53,197 (Oct. 10, 1997), 1203
Off. Gaz. Pat. & Trademark Office 63, 122 (Oct. 21, 1997)).
37 CFR § 1.196(b) provides that, "A new ground of rejection
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