Appeal No. 2000-1519
Application No. 08/674,875
gain control signal is generated by controller 42. Accordingly,
the claim language, “a single gain control signal” is not met or
suggested by Lemson. This language must be read as requiring
only a single gain control signal, and no more than a single gain
control signal, because the term, single would have no meaning if
allowed to read on the disclosure of Lemson which shows two gain
control signals being generated by controller 42.
Moreover, Figure 2 of Lemson does not clearly teach the
depicted elements as comprising a “remote antenna unit.” Since
Lemson describes the input and output to the depicted elements as
being a “total system input” and a “total system output,”
respectively, [column 16, lines 61-63], it would appear that
these elements do not correspond to a single remote antenna unit.
The examiner has pointed to nothing which would have led the
artisan to include these elements in each one of the remote
antenna units depicted in APA. Accordingly, no convincing
rationale has been presented by the examiner as to why the
artisan would have combined the teachings of the references,
within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. 103.
With regard to the Figure 9 embodiment of Lemson, which the
examiner contends shows separate antenna units 68a and 68b, each
comprising a signal level comparator and a gain controller, there
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