Appeal No. 1999-1551
Application No. 08/547,736
Claims 1-21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness,
the examiner offers Connolly and Krebs with regard to claims 1-4, 6-8, 11-14 and 20,
adding Barnes to this combination with regard to claims 5, 9, 10, 15-19 and 21.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the respective positions of
appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
With regard to independent claim 1, the examiner explains, in Paper No. 4, that
Connolly discloses a base station for a DECT-like radio telephone system comprising at
least one handset (identifying Figure 1 and column 7, lines 44-49) and comprising a base
station processing means, Figure 1, column 8, lines 24-30, which is responsive to an
incoming call for causing the base station communicating means to transmit a signal
analogous to an {LCE-PAGE-REQUEST}, identifying Figure 1, Figure 7 and column 11,
lines 6-27. See page 3 of Paper No. 4.
It is the examiner’s position that Connolly discloses the invention but for Connolly’s
paging signal specifying the handset for which the message is intended.
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