Appeal No. 2001-1941
Application No. 09/023,469
Claims 2 through 4, 8 through 10 and 14 through
18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Lee in view of Baba and Nakagoshi.
Reference is made to the briefs (paper numbers 10 and
14) and the answer (paper number 11) 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 obviousness rejection of claims
1 through 18.
According to the examiner (answer, page 3), Lee
discloses (Figure 3) a first antenna 13b, a first converter
49, a first transmitter for transmitting an information-
bearing signal over a first wireline 25 and a means
demodulating the information-bearing signal. The examiner
acknowledges (answer, pages 3 and 4) that the converter
49 is not a downconverter that downconverts an information-
bearing signal to an intermediate frequency signal, and that
the first wireline 25 is not a twisted-pair wireline. Based
upon Lee’s teaching (column 7, lines 21 through 25) that
“[i]t will be apparent to those skilled in the art that such
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