Appeal No. 1999-0877
Application No. 08/204,441
that "with respect to Nokia, ... the feature of 'own number
display' has nothing to do with Applicant's claimed
invention." We agree with the Appellants' position. In
none of the references there is any need for displaying a
user's own telephone number with the use of a smart card.
Rasmussen is designed to make it easy for the user to
telephone a desired party by the use of a smart card which
carries in its memory telephone numbers assigned to other
parties. Endo merely enables a user access to a telephone
network exchange by the use of a smart card and by putting in
the access code, see Fig. 5. Nokia only displays the
telephone number of the owner of the hand set corresponding to
the owner's registration code, rather than trying to display
the telephone number on request. It is
to be noted that the applied references are not designed to
meet the requirement or a need which is encountered in the
European telephone system, where there is a need for the
subscriber-user to display his own telephone number on the
display of a public exchange set, assuming that the user
forgot his telephone number. In the United States, a smart
card is not used to learn the telephone number of the smart
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