Appeal No. 2002-2291
Application No. 09/196,117
radio receiver branches each connected to an output of a corresponding combiner device and
leading to a radio receiver.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Reudink 5,563,610 Oct. 8, 1996
Newman et al. [Newman] 5,684,491 Nov. 4, 1997
Claims 1-9, 11 and 13-29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as unpatentable over
Reudink and Newman.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the respective positions of appellants and
the examiner.
OPINION
The examiner’s position is that Reudink discloses the claimed subject matter except for at
least two antenna assemblies each providing a set of antenna beams and for each beam in a first
of said set of antenna beams there is a corresponding beam in the second of said sets of antenna
beams covering a corresponding space area. The examiner turns to Newman for a disclosure of
“at least two antenna assemblies each providing a set of antenna beams (4-beam antennas 20 and
20a), and for each beam in a first of said set of antenna beams (21', 22', 23' and 24') there is a
corresponding beam in the second of said sets of antenna beams (21a’, 22a’, 23a’ and 24a’)
covering a corresponding space area, see fig. 1." The examiner concludes from these teachings
that it would have been obvious “to modify Reudink in having two antenna beams and the
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