Appeal No. 2005-2418
Application 09/932,639
recites power consuming devices may have programmed functions
that are performed in response to receiving the power from the
fiber optic cable.
According to the teachings at column 1, lines 52
through 55, relied upon by the examiner, Pitt contemplates that
his system may be utilized for supplying power remotely to
surveillance, communications and control systems or devices.
It appears to us that the artisan would well appreciate the
corresponding teachings of Tymes emphasizing the optical
transmission of modulated information from a light source 110 to
individualized display devices 102 through 108 as in figure 1 of
this reference. Tymes is an exemplary form of the broadly
defined communications and control devices noted at the bottom of
column 1 of Pitt. Thus, we agree with the examiner’s basic
rationale that it would have been obvious to have combined the
teachings of Tymes into the overall system of Pitt contrary to
appellant’s generalized contrary urging at the bottom of page 22
of the Brief.
The showing in figure 4 of Tymes and the discussion of
this figure at the bottom of column 3 of this reference indicates
specifically that individualized device identification commands
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