Appeal No. 2001-1944
Application No. 08/734,857
a computer system comprising a computer sound card
having an input jack and an output jack and means for
receiving and transmitting digital audio signals, means
for compressing and decompressing said audio signals,
means for transmitting compressed audio signals to a
digital network, means for receiving compressed audio
signals from said digital network; and
means for connecting the microphone wires to the
input jack and for connecting the speaker wires to the
output jack.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Schindler et al. (Schindler) 5,675,390 Oct. 07, 1997
(filed Jul. 17, 1995)
Claims 1 through 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Schindler
alone.
Rather that repeat the positions of the appellant and the
examiner, reference is made to the brief and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
Since we have concluded that the examiner has failed to
establish a prima facie case of obviousness within 35 U.S.C.
§ 103, we reverse.
As appellant’s disclosed invention in the Summary of the
Invention at pages one and two of the brief made clear, it was
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