Appeal No. 1999-2316
Application No. 08/640,262
Arpin.
Claims 45, 47, 48 and 50 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Arroyo in view of Bleich,
Arpin and the TIA/EIA Standard document.
Claim 49 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Arroyo in view of Bleich, Arpin, the
TIA/EIA Standard document and Gerland.
Reference is made to the brief (paper number 19) and the
answer (paper number 20) for the respective positions of the
appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will reverse the rejection of claims 45 and 47 through
50 under the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112, and the
rejection of claims 4, 6 through 10, 13, 14, 31, 39, 40, 45
and 47 through 50 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a).
In response to the examiner’s position that the formulas
of claims 45 and 47 through 50 lack written description in the
originally filed disclosure, appellants argue (brief, page 10)
that “[t]he language related to the attenuation
characteristics of the claimed twisted pair is expressly
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