Appeal No. 1999-2057
Application 08/405,062
For the reason stated above, we conclude that the
Examiner erred in finding anticipation. The anticipation
rejection of claims 1-10, 12-16, and 18 is reversed.
Claim 17
Claim 17 is directed to the user terminal 12 or 14 of
Fig. 2 and recites a user interface, a conversation manager
connected to the user interface for connection with a meeting
room server in the communications network, a data manager, a
video manager, and a voice manager. Appellants argue that Rae
does not show or suggest these features and that all Rae
refers to is a user terminal having a telephone and facsimile
machine (Br14-15). It is argued that Rae does not show video
data (Br10). The Examiner finds that the user terminal having
a telephone and facsimile machine handles "voice (audio),
graphic (video) and textual data (data)" (EA8), referring to
column 6, lines 25-69, of Rae, and that "[g]raphic data is
synonymous with video" (EA17).
The telephone and facsimile machine 100 in Fig. 1 of Rae
handles voice by telephone and data by facsimile machine.
However, the Examiner errs in finding (EA8; EA15) that
"graphic data" in Rae is "video." Rae discloses storage and
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