Appeal No. 2005-2418
Application 09/932,639
through 49 and 52 through 58, since the examiner has allowed
claims 11 through 13, 27 and 28 and has objected to claims 46,
50, 51 and 59 through 61. We consider on the merits the
arguments presented in the Supplemental Brief filed on
February 17, 2004.
Representative claim 25 is reproduced below:
25. An electrical power distribution system,
comprising:
a fiber optic line;
multiple power consuming devices; and
multiple control modules interconnected between the
fiber optic line and the power consuming devices, each of the
control modules being interconnected between the fiber optic line
and one of the power consuming devices, and each of the control
modules being operative to select the respective power consuming
device for supplying electrical power thereto in response to one
of multiple optical wavelength bands transmitted through the
fiber optic line, each of the optical wavelength bands causing
one of the control modules to select the respective power
consuming device for supplying electrical power thereto,
the multiple optical wavelength bands being transmitted
singly through the fiber optic line.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Endo et al. (Endo) 4,495,421 Jan. 22, 1985
Pitt et al. (Pitt) 4,928,319 May 22, 1990
Davis 4,941,201 July 10, 1990
Tymes 5,193,201 Mar. 9, 1993
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