Appeal No. 1999-2348
Application No. 08/586,716
continuously an electronic system, even if a failure occurs
within the master monitor device, by using a set of slave
monitor devices, and by installing a control section on each
slave monitor device, which provides almost the same function
as the control section of the master monitor device. Ono
simply transfers and selectively activates some of the
functions of the master control monitor device to the slave
monitor devices 21 and 22, see figures 1 and 2 and the
paragraph bridging pages 2 and 3 of the English translation.
Thus, we agree with appellant that Ono does not cure the
deficiency noted by the examiner in Tayloe in meeting the
recited limitations of claim 1 and its corresponding method
claim 13. Therefore, we do not sustain the obviousness
rejection of claims 1, 2, 8, 10 to 13 and 19 to 24 over Tayloe
and Ono.
Tayloe, Ono and Zoffinger
The examiner rejects claims 3 to 7, 9 and 14 to 18 at
pages
6 to 7 of the examiner’s answer over Tayloe, Ono and Zoffinger.
However, since these claims each depend on claim 1 or 13, and
con- tain their respective limitations, and Zoffinger does not
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