Appeal No. 2005-2329
Application No. 09/738,293
to claim 48.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the examiner,
reference is made to the brief (no reply brief has been filed) for the
appellants’ positions, and to the answer for the examiner’s positions.
OPINION
As embellished upon here, we sustain the rejections of all claims on
appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 103 essentially for the reasons set forth by the
examiner in the answer. As indicated at the bottom of page 3 of the brief,
the “issues presented for review can be decided with reference to claims 1,
47, 48 and 63.” Since the arguments presented in the brief focus only
upon these claims, including independent claims 1 and 63, we do so
likewise.
Turning first to the subject matter of independent claim 1 on appeal,
the examiner asserts at page 4 of the answer that Tang teaches
substantially all the subject matter of this claim recognizing at the same
time, however, that this reference “does not clearly show in detail how
each member of the team communicates over at least a Switched
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