Appeal No. 97-4150
Application No. 08/186,820
TCI TEL Controlling, TC-1013SL Programmable Call Controller For
Selective Call Control, 1990, pages 1 through 11.
FCC Regulations3
Claim 42 stands rejected under the second paragraph of
35 U.S.C. § 112 as being indefinite for failing to particularly4
point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which appellant
regards as the invention.
Claims 1 through 3, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24 through 26, 29
through 32, 35 through 37, 39 through 41, 43 through 45, 47, 48,
50, 51, 53, 54 and 56 through 58 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Bimonte in view of FCC
Regulations.
Claims 4, 5, 7, 9 through 11, 13, 27, 28, 33, 34, 38, 42,
49, 52 and 55 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Bimonte in view of FCC Regulations and Jackson.
3The prior art listing (Answer, page 4) does not list any
regulations. In the rejections, we assume that the examiner is
alluding to FCC Regulations that prevent “the blockage of
interstate calls from public telephones when these calls are
placed using certain access codes” (specification, page 5).
4The rejection of claims 30 through 34 under the first
paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 has been withdrawn by the examiner
(Supplemental Answer, page 3).
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