Appeal No. 1999-0084
Application No. 08/448,854
and we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1
through 19, 23 through 25 and 29 through 38.
Menich discloses a basic GSM system that is concerned
with handover control of mobile stations from cell to cell
(Figure 1). Each of the base transceiver stations (BTS) in
each cell includes a plurality of transceivers 32 through 34
(Figure 2). Although overlap of adjacent cells is discussed
(page 1, lines 17 through 22), Menich is completely silent
concerning the placement of the transceivers and the
frequencies that they transmit in the overlapping region.
The examiner indicates (answer, page 3) that Menich
“fails to show a plurality of cells, each of which is assigned
at least one communication frequency and containing a
plurality of transceiver units,” and “fails to show a
transceiver unit which is shared by a plurality of overlapping
cells wherein the transceiver unit both transmits and receives
signals on frequencies assigned to the cells.” The examiner
turns to Mack and Toriyama for the teachings missing in
Menich.
Mack discloses a radio communication system (Figure 1)
that uses a plurality of central stations 10, 26, 42 and 62.
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