Appeal No. 2002-1554
Application 08/003,996
PREVIOUS APPEAL
A previous decision was entered in this case in Ex parte
Rice, No. 95-3029 (Bd. Pat. App. & Int. March 24, 1999) (Paper
No. 20), affirming the rejection of claims 2-51 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 101. Independent claims 2, 16, 34 were subsequently amended
to change "signals" to "electromagnetic signals" (Paper No. 22).
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to an "electromagnetic
signal" and an "electromagnetic signal" produced by a certain
process (product-by-process).
Representative claims 2 and 16 are reproduced below with the
added limitation to "electromagnetic" underlined.
2. An assembly of simultaneously transmitted
electromagnetic signals, said signals being related to each
other in said assembly so as to communicate information to a
receiver, said signals being structured so as to contain
corresponding subsets of a set of binary spreading-code
sequences, at least one subset of said set of binary
spreading-code sequences containing more than one of said
binary spreading-code sequences, each subset of said set of
binary spreading-code sequences embodying a corresponding
portion of said information.
16. An assembly of simultaneously transmitted
electromagnetic signals, said signals being related to each
other in said assembly so as to communicate information from
a transmitting node to a receiving node of a communication
network, said assembly of signals being produced by a
process of:
a) assigning blocks of bits embodying said
information to corresponding subsets of a set of
binary spreading-code sequences, at least one of
said subsets of said set of binary spreading-code
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