Ex parte CASTONGUAY et al. - Page 9




          Appeal No. 95-2004                                                          
          Application 07/597,370                                                      

          AT&T Names, and on page 3-16 of the reference, we find only a               
          single reference to "each team leader in the office."  The                  
          examiner is reading far too much into the phrase "each team                 
          leader in the office."  The phrase does not reasonably                      
          disclose or suggest that the entire event load of incoming                  
          calls at any one time is collectively serviced by a plurality               
          of teams/management units which are allocated respective                    
          portions of the entire load.  It is mere                                    




          speculation that this is the case.  Moreover, the other parts               
          of the AT&T Names reference do not corroborate the picture as               
          envisioned by the examiner.  It may be that for each shift the              
          team is under the management of a team leader and several                   
          individuals in the office are qualified to serve in that role.              
          Or, there may be more than one team but each team is                        
          responsible for a separate shift.  Note also that on page 3-3,              
          AT&T Names indicates that all employees are in one supervisory              
          group.  The examiner simply has not established that AT&T                   
          Names discloses or would have reasonably suggested that more                
          than one management unit or team is called upon at any one                  

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