Appeal No. 97-4150
Application No. 08/186,820
We agree with appellant that Bimonte and the FCC Regulations
neither teach nor would they have suggested the prevention of
international calls based upon a determination of specific digits
in a dialing sequence. Accordingly, the obviousness rejection of
claims 1 through 3, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24 through 26, 29 through 32,
35 through 37, 39 through 41, 43 through 45, 47, 48, 50, 51, 53,
54 and 56 through 58 based upon the combined teachings of Bimonte
and the FCC Regulations is reversed.
The obviousness rejection of claims 4, 5, 7, 9 through 11,
13, 27, 28, 33, 34, 38, 42, 49, 52 and 55 based upon the combined
teachings of Bimonte, the FCC Regulations and Jackson is reversed
because Jackson’s teachings of prohibiting all but local calls by
disabling the telephone dial circuit “[w]hen the number of digits
dialed exceeds the minimum number required to place a local
telephone call” (column 1, lines 51 through 61) do not cure the
noted shortcomings in the combined teachings of Bimonte and the
FCC Regulations (Brief, page 18).
Arbabzadah discloses control equipment in a customer-owned
public telephone station that prevents a user from making
unauthorized telephone calls on a telephone line (column 1, lines
50 through 53). The equipment is controlled by CPU 106 (Figure
1), and a table of calls to be blocked are stored in EEPROM 113
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