Appeal No. 2000-1703
Application No. 08/963,545
from and to other similar nodes within the
building;
and/or
from and to a master node within the building;
means responsive to the information for
causing the transceiver to repeat the information
when the information indicates a node other than the node;
causing the node to take local action on the
information when the information indicates the node.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
Examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
F. William Gutzwiller, “Control Networks for the Home,”
Machine Design, Vol. 55, No. 24, pp. 109-112, October 1983.
Claims 20-23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Gutzwiller.
We make reference to the answer (Paper No. 15, mailed August
9, 1999) for the Examiner’s complete reasoning in support of the
rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 14, filed June 7, 1999)
and the reply brief (Paper No. 16, filed September 10, 1999) for
Appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
With respect to claim 20, the Examiner refers to the figure
on page 109 of Gutzwiller and indicates that “PLC [Power-line
Carrier], telephone lines, radio, IR, coaxial cable or twisted
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