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`Part I THE FOLLOWING ATTACHMENNS) AFIE PART OF THIS ACTION:
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`13. [I Since this application apppears to be In condition for allowance except for formal matters. prosecution as to the merits Is closed In
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`Petitioner Biotronik, Inc. - EX. 1004, p. 1
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`indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which
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`Note that claim 43 is dependent upon itself, hence, the various elements recited in
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`A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or
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`described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject
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`matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a
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`whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having
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`be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made.
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`Subject matter developed by another person, which qualifies as prior art only under
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`subsection (t) or (g) of section 102 of this title, shall not preclude patentability under
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`this section where the subject matter and the claimed invention were, at the time the
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`invention was made, owned by the same person or subject to an obligation of
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`Claims 1, 2, 6, 7, 11, and 32 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
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`Natarajan et a1 disclose a wireless communication system including a plurality of
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`transceivers (communicators) including battery powering mobile stations and fixed base
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`stations which transmit in accordance with a scheduled access protocol which incorporates a
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`battery saving function. The scheduled access protocol turns on receivers only for their
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`scheduled receive period and turns on transmitters only for their scheduled transmit period,
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`otherwise the transmitter and receivers are powered down for periods between the scheduled
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`periods respectively. Natarajan et a1 does not explicitly disclose the designation of one of the
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`communicators as a hub but this would have been obvious in view of the base station
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`disclosed by Natarajan et a1 wherein the base station acts a hub and mobile stations in range
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`of the base station consider the base station as a hub and hence implicitly select or designate
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`the base station as the hub station to which the mobile station is in communication with.
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`See col 6., lines 16-38, the base station or hub broadcast messages allocating
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`The prior art cited disclose battery conservation techniques for use in wireless
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