Appeal No. 2006-1607 Application 10/062,894 distributing multiple pulses among said time slots to encode a data element by said unique phase/time position. THE REFERENCE The examiner relies on the following reference: Devon et al. (Devon) 5,684,871 November 4, 1997 THE REJECTIONS Claims 1-3 and 11-13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Devon. Claims 4-10 and 14-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Devon. We refer to the final rejection entered May 6, 2004, and the examiner's answer (pages referred to as "EA__") entered July 27, 2005, for a statement of the examiner's rejection, and to the brief (pages referred to as "Br__") received May 9, 2005, and reply brief (pages referred to as "RBr__") received September 30, 2005, for a statement of appellant's arguments thereagainst. - 4 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007