Appeal No. 2006-0406
Application 09/497,865
THE REFERENCES
The examiner relies on the following references:
Ajioka 3,720,953 March 13, 1973
Chang et al. (Chang) 5,077,562 December 31, 1991
Aoki et al. (Aoki) 5,257,030 October 26, 1993
Barrett et al. (Barrett) 5,973,647 October 26, 1999
Karlsson et al. (Karlsson) 6,034,634 March 7, 2000
(filed October 24, 1997)
Isamu Chiba et al. (Chiba), Digital Beam Forming (DBF)
Antenna System for Mobile Communications, IEEE AES Systems
Magazine, September 1997, pp. 31-41.
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 4, 5, 7-9, 11, 13-18, 21, 22, and 25-37 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Karlsson, Chiba, Chang, and Aoki.
Claims 2, 3, 10, 12, 19, 20, 23, and 24 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Karlsson, Chiba,
Chang, and Aoki, further in view of Ajioka and Barrett.
We refer to the final rejection (pages referred to as
"FR__") and the examiner's answer (pages referred to as "EA__")
for a statement of the examiner's rejection, and to the brief
(pages referred to as "Br__") and reply brief (pages referred to
as "RBr__") for a statement of appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
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