Appeal No. 2003-0495 Page 3
Application No. 09/256,543
A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following
claim.
1. A method for detecting a synchronization signal within a plurality of
channels, comprising:
selecting a subset of the plurality of channels, wherein the subset
includes more than one channel;
determining substantially simultaneously if the synchronization
signal exists on at least one of the subset of channels; and
initiating communications in response to determining that the
synchronization signal exists on at least one of the subset of channels.
Claims 1-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as anticipated by U.S.
Patent No. 6,052,407 ("Ciccone").
OPINION
Our opinion addresses the claims in the following order:
• claims 1-7
• claims 8-20.
A. CLAIMS 1-7
"[T]o assure separate review by the Board of individual claims within each group
of claims subject to a common ground of rejection, an appellant's brief to the Board
must contain a clear statement for each rejection: (a) asserting that the patentability of
claims within the group of claims subject to this rejection do not stand or fall together,
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