Appeal No. 2004-1981 Page 2
Application No. 09/404,692
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced as follows:
1. A control method for non-linear coupled systems of
producing units having a single consumer output, the method
comprising the steps of
setting each producing unit to have an output responsive to
a continuously provided analog signal representative of a market
price,
connecting each producing unit to a marketwire carrying the
analog signal, with the changes in the analog signal on the
marketwire representing changes in the market price and dependent
upon the output response of each producing unit.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Clearwater 5,394,324 Feb. 28, 1995
Claims 1-10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Clearwater.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejection,
we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 20, mailed
February 6, 2004) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 19,
filed December 22, 2003) for appellants' arguments thereagainst.
Only those arguments actually made by appellants have been
considered in this decision. Arguments which appellants could
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