Reexamination Control No. 90/005,742
Patent 5,253,341
1 to coaxial or fiber optic cables or are designed for receiving wireless broadcast signals from a
2 transmitter or satellite.
3 The rejection of claim 103 for obviousness over Pocock in view of Kirchner is therefore
4 affirmed.
5 (6) Claim 103 – obvious over Pocock in view of Dr. Koopman's testimony?
6 The rejection of claim 103 for obviousness over Pocock in view of Dr. Koopman's
7 testimony is affirmed for the same reason as the rejection of that claim over Walter in view of
8 that testimony.
9 S. The rejections based on Baji
10 (1) Claims 93, 96, 100, 102, and 104 – anticipated by Baji?
11 The examiner contends that claims 93, 96, 100-02, and 104 read on Baji. 3d Action at
12 99, para. 39; Final Action at 253, para. 38. Baji discloses a bidirectional image communication
13 system employing broadband ISDN or cable for transmitting programs and advertisements. Baji,
14 col. 1, ll. 6-11. Referring to Figure 1-1, the system includes a broadcast station head end 115
15 which is connected via broadband transmission lines 19 to a plurality of subscriber stations 116.
16 Each subscriber station includes a network terminal 111, a decoder 112, a terminal control unit
17 113, a program buffer 161, a commercial buffer 160, and a television monitor 114. The head end
18 115 includes a title data base 129, which includes a pointer to the corresponding file in a preview
19 data base 127, which in turn includes a pointer to the corresponding file in motion picture data
20 base 102. Figure 14A shows this hierarchical relationship in pictorial form. Head end 115 also
21 includes an image encoder 107 for achieving bandwidth compression of a motion picture
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