Appeal No. 98-1528 Page 5
Application No. 08/374,039
acknowledgment of a change of address. In Scragg, the
recipient of sent materials acknowledges receipt by returning
to the sender a self-addressed post card that the sender has
included with the materials. However, whether this is a new
address is of no interest or consequence insofar as Scragg is
concerned. Scragg also provides no teaching of involving an
ethereal being. In the case of the three newspaper references,
the sender’s letter to an ethereal being at the recipient’s
address provokes the recipient to respond on behalf of the
ethereal being to the address indicated in the sender’s letter.
While the response is, in effect, an acknowledgment that the
sender’s letter was received, it is not an acknowledgment that
this is a change in address. Therefore, it is our view that
the combined teachings of the references, in either of the two
rejections, would not have suggested to one of ordinary skill
in the art “[a] method for providing acknowledgment from a
recipient of an occupant’s change of address” wherein the
recipient is an ethereal being, which is the invention recited
in independent claim 1, or “[a] method of reassuring a child
that a change of residential address has been received by an
ethereal being,” as is the case in independent claim 22.
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