Appeal No. 2003-2074
Application No. 09/095,325
program running on the same communications server 220 or located
on another server 240.” As pointed out by appellants, at page 1
of the reply brief, page 16, lines 12-34, of the specification
make it clear that the communication server 220 is configured to
receive electronic mail messages generated by the mobile client
201 and to forward the same to a message recipient (note
especially lines 20-21 of page 16). This, taken together with
page 8 of the specification disclosing that the post office host
server 240 may be configured to have the same functionality as
the communication server 240, makes it clear to the artisan that
at least one of the communication server 220 and the post office
host server 240, is a “forwarding component associated with a
host system,” as claimed, and that the inventors did, indeed,
have possession of the invention now claimed at the time of
filing the application.
The examiner contends that the email post office is not
“directly associated with the host” (answer-page 4, lines 9-10).
However, the instant claimed do not require a “direct”
association.
The examiner also states that “an explicit limitations [sic,
limitation](ie. a forward component associated with a host
system, forwarding the received message to a message recipient)
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