Appeal No. 2005-2418
Application 09/932,639
the signals at column 4 and which would clearly include the
memory elements or storage devices claimed. Even though such
elements would not necessarily be changeable such that data
transmitted through a fiber optic length may be stored in them,
since the artisan would appreciate that such memory metals would
already have data fixedly stored in them per se, we find it would
have been obvious to the artisan to have employed data storage
devices of the nature taught in Davis as argued by the examiner
to add the additional feature that data may be individually
storable or selectively storable in the devices as well. Even
though the showings in the three embodiments in figures 6
through 8 of Pitt indicate that at least individually,
utilization-type devices may be individually controllable with
respect to each remote power consuming station, the selectability
is well known in the art according to the discussion in the
background of the invention at column 1 of Pitt. The examiner is
correct in making reference to the additional teachings at
column 1, lines 52 through 55, as a plurality of type of remote
devices.
According to the examiner’s reasoning, it appears to us
that the generic type of utilization devices in figures 6
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