Appeal No. 2003-1632
Application 09/173,991
We sustain the rejection of independent claims 40, 46,
70 and 73 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 and the respective rejections of
their dependent claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102 and 35 U.S.C. § 103.
On the other hand, we reverse the rejection of independent
claims 56 and 60 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 and their respective
dependent claims rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 and 35 U.S.C.
§ 103.
Initially, as to the features recited in corresponding
method independent claim 56 and system independent claim 60, the
focus of the dispute between the parties revolves around the
feature of these claims relating to providing a serial number of
the embedded computer to the remote computer via the wireless
link and the subsequent determination in the remote computer of
whether the serial number is included within the serial number
database.
Essentially as to these claims, we agree with
appellants’ positions in the Brief and Reply Brief since the
argued position of the examiner that the teachings and
suggestions in the long paragraph at column 3 meet this feature
is misplaced. In fact, we find no teaching or suggestion in
Chaum from our study of it relating to the existence or reliance
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