Appeal No. 2004-2179
Application No. 09/785,919
positions that the examiner does set forth regarding the
(speculative) nature of appellants’ arguments, the examiner’s
remarks do include positions that Schultheiss operates
necessarily in the claimed manner. Certainly this is the case
in view of our embellished positions.
We note in passing that the subject matter shown in figure 1
of Schultheiss very simply and directly relates to the subject
matter of independent claim 26 on appeal as well. This figure
plainly shows that an infrared transmitter from the wireless
remote control unit 50 directly controls through various commands
and formats, information signals in the form of IR signal 72 to
the TV 40 for its direct control. In a similar manner, the same
remote control unit 50 indirectly controls the same television 40
by means of the UHF transceiver 54 within this wireless remote
control unit 50 by means of UHF control signals 74 and 76 to the
UHF transmitter 24 in the personal computer. Correspondingly as
well, the wireless remoter control unit 50 can directly control
the personal computer 12. The use of infrared and UHF signal
protocols requires different formats for the conversion of
standard keyboard operations to control separate devices such as
the personal computer 12 and the TV 40.
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