Appeal No. 95-0057
Application 07/775,114
lacks only a teaching of using a remote card reader which not
only reads information from the card but also writes information
about the calls back onto the card [answer, pages 5-6]. The
examiner cites Fuwa as providing this teaching and explains why
it would have been obvious to the artisan to combine the
teachings of Fuwa with any of the “primary” references.
Appellants’ initial argument is that the Fuwa translation
is so confusing that it does not support the examiner’s
interpretation. Appellants assert that it is not clear in Fuwa
whether the data regarding the phone calls is written to the card
or written to a central host billing computer [brief, page 9].
The
examiner argues that the translation clearly supports his
position that data regarding phone transactions is written onto
the card. Although we agree with appellants that the Fuwa
translation is not entirely clear on this point, we nevertheless
agree with the examiner that the document as a whole would have
suggested to the artisan that data was intended to be written
onto the card.
First, the very nature of integrated circuit cards, also
commonly referred to as smart cards, is that they contain
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