Appeal No. 1998-2693 Page 8
Application No. 08/569,976
23 USPQ2d at 1784 (citing In re Gordon, 733 F.2d 900, 902, 221
USPQ 1125, 1127 (Fed. Cir. 1984)).
The examiner admits that Moore '021 "fails to
specifically teach the enabling/disabling of the receiver
addresses is achieved by manually operating the selection
means ...." (Examiner's Answer at 5.) Rather than manual,
local enabling and disabling of the addresses to which a pager
responds, the reference discloses that the addresses are
controlled by signals sent from a central controller.
Specifically, "the paging system 106 will then verify if the
receiver is authorized to receive the subscription, at step
524. If not authorized, then the paging system 106 will send
the disable code at step 526." Col. 8, ll. 57-61.
Although Berry teaches that "voice commands may be used
in conjunction with manually entered commands (or vice versa)
to execute a desired function[,]" col. 5, ll. 23-26, the
reference does not mention a command or function for enabling
and disabling a pager's address. To the contrary, Berry
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