Appeal No. 2004-2153
Application No. 09/923,510
single packet stream or not, and, notwithstanding the outcome of
that inquiry, to further consider whether it would have been
obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of
appellants’ invention (based on the combined teachings of
Willebrand and Reichman) to utilize time division multiplexing to
transmit the noted status, control and management information
over the single specific wavelength signal disclosed in
Willebrand in a single packet stream, especially since Willebrand
does not appear to provide any specific disclosure concerning how
these three different types of information are to be carried on
the reserved separate wavelength signal.
REVERSED AND REMANDED
CHARLES E. FRANKFORT )
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JOHN C. MARTIN ) APPEALS AND
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