Appeal No. 2003-1841 Page 8
Application No. 09/272,956
delay the updating. (Spec. at 1.) The delay, in turn, could lead to "interpretive race
condition[s]." (Id. at 2.) Furthermore, transmitting updates to the portable
communication devices would require much bandwidth. (Id.)
In view of the disadvantages of downloading functions assigned to a device's
SLKs from an external switch, absent a persuasive explanation or showing of the
desirability of such downloading, we are unpersuaded of a prima facie case of
obviousness. Therefore, we reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1, 2, 4-14, and
16-26.
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