Appeal No. 1999-1551
Application No. 08/547,736
transmission of a single page request, within a given base station coverage area, that is
directed to more than one communication unit because in the example given by Krebs,
there is only one communication unit in a given zone. Citing columns 7 and 8, lines 61-62
and 9-19 of Krebs, respectively, appellants argue that Krebs’ page request is sent to each
access control gateway, where each access control gateway sends a single page request
to a target communication unit. [see page 6 of the principal brief].
First, in a rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103, a reference need not specifically teach
a certain feature if that claimed feature is clearly suggested by the prior art. In the instant
case, we agree with the examiner that Krebs at least suggests the transmission of a single
page request, within a given base station coverage area, that is directed to more than one
communication unit. Column 6, line 46 through column 7, line 25, and the portions of
columns 7 and 8 cited by appellants at least suggest that there may be a single base
station sending a page request to several communication units (e.g. handsets), e.g.,
column 8, lines 11-12 states that the access control gateway sends a page request to “an
associated base station at the respective site, which request is then repeated to
corresponding communication units.”
Furthermore, even appellants [at page 6 of the principal brief] identify column 1,
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