Appeal No. 2005-0276
Application No. 09/736,941
Attention is directed to the main and reply briefs (Paper
Nos. 8 and 10) and the answer (Paper No. 9) for the respective
positions of the appellant and the examiner regarding the merits
of this rejection.
DISCUSSION
Croy, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a hand-
held remote control unit for controlling the operation of
electronic devices such as televisions and video cassette
recorders (see column 3, lines 6 through 10; and column 9, lines
16 through 18). As shown in Figure 2, the remote control unit
200 includes an interface 210 for communicating with a base
station 100 which itself electrically communicates with a
television 140 or a video cassette recorder 142, a microcomputer
220, a memory 222, a power supply 224, a selection device 230
having an array of keys for user input and commands, a display
device 240 and a speaker 250. The power supply 224 consists of
batteries which can be recharged through electrical contact with
charging circuits 134 in the base station 100 (see column 4,
lines 4 through 8 and 47 through 62). Figure 3A shows the unit
200 “removably inserted and electrically coupled into the base
station 100” (column 7, lines 25 and 26), i.e., docked
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