Appeal No. 2006-3093 Page 15
Application No. 10/754,306
In addition, the examiner notes that Kitao’s remote controller 100 downloads
a control code table from the electronic device and stores the table in a built-in
memory of the remote controller (e.g., see col. 8, lines 23-30) [id.]. The examiner
notes that Kitao’s design eliminates the necessity of storing many control code
tables for numerous electronic devices in a memory of remote controller 100 [id.].
The examiner further notes that if an electronic device adopts a new control code
table, remote controller 100 can download the new control code table from the
device (col. 8, lines 53-56) [id.]. Thus, the examiner concludes that Kitao discloses
new remote device information is appended to the control code table RAM 203 of
remote controller 100 [id.].
After carefully reviewing all of the evidence before us, we will sustain the
examiner’s rejection of representative claim 4 for essentially the same reasons
argued by the examiner in the answer. We note that Kitao explicitly discloses
downloading a control table from a new electronic device to the memory of remote
controller 100 [col. 8, lines 46-57]. Thus, we find that Kitao teaches the new
electronic device control table is appended to the existing “plurality of control code
tables” stored in the memory of remote controller 100 [see col. 8, lines 41-43: i.e.,
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