Appeal No.2002-1516
Application No. 09/052,744
a prima facie case of obviousness of the claimed invention, and we cannot sustain the
rejection of independent claims 1 and 23 and their dependent claims.
With respect to independent claim 17, we note that this independent claim does
not contain a similar limitation with a peripheral hub connected to a transceiver pair to
communicate with a computer. Independent claim 17 recites:
17. A radio frequency transceiver apparatus for providing a wireless
USB bus, said transceiver apparatus comprising:
a USB connector for connecting to a hosting device;
a USB interface electrically connected to said USB connector;
a radio frequency transceiver electrically connected to said USB
interface, said transceiver transmits and receives radio frequency signals;
and
an antenna operatively connected to said transceiver.
Appellants rely upon the arguments above with respect to a USB hub and appellants
argue that Burnett fails to appreciate the need for a wireless USB bus that operates
transparently in the USB system and does not require host controller circuitry and does
not operate as a USB device. (See brief at page 6.) We disagree with appellants and
do not find support in the express language of independent claim 17 for these
arguments.
From our review of Figure 4 of Burnett, we agree with the examiner that Burnett
teaches and fairly suggests the invention as claimed. Specifically, Burnett teaches a
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