Appeal No. 2001-1944
Application No. 08/734,857
according to the depiction of the arrowhead to the element 1622.
The manner in which appellant argues and the manner in which the
affidavit of Mr. Bogley conveys to us that Schindler’s system
appears to work is straightforward according to the showings in
Fig. 16.
The examiner indicates at the bottom of page 7 of the answer
that “Schindler teaches in Figure 16 that two way communication
is performed using element 1622 (voice capability), sound card
and a modem. One output goes to modem 322 for transmission and
one input goes to sound card 320 for reception.” The examiner
goes on to indicate that “[t]his teaching supports the conclusion
that element 1622 could be interpreted as a telephone handset
which is used to provide voice communications that is separate
from a video conference.”
Although we agree with these general assessments of the
examiner as to these teachings and showings, the claimed
invention requires that both the microphone of the telephone
handset input be to the sound card and the output from the sound
card feed the speaker of the handset. By the examiner’s own
admission, even if we consider the designation of element 1622 in
Fig. 16 as indicating a conventional telephone handset, it is not
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