Appeal No. 1997-1117
Application No. 08/300,703
has relied on for disclosing the claimed two-level
verification feature.
Upon careful review of the Warren reference, we are in
agreement with the Examiner’s position as stated in the
Answer. The disclosure at column 16, lines 1-58 of Warren
describes an initial access verification performed by
comparing a portion of an input code with a stored access code
and a second verification performed by determining whether
access is permitted to a selected container by examining a
“device” portion of the input code. Additionally, in our
view, the description in column 16 of Warren has relevance to
independent claim 33 which is directed to the verification of
the input of a selected code and additional information. As
alluded to by the Examiner at page 11 of the Answer, Warren
provides for the enablement of control of a particular device
according to the input of an additional “device” code after
analysis of the input selected access code. Further, to the
extent that Appellant is correct in challenging Warren’s use
of a dynamic non-predictable code, the disclosure of Weiss,
which is included in the Examiner’s proposed combination,
provides a clear teaching of this feature. For the above
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