Appeal No. 1997-1921
Application 08/099,709
of claims 1-6, 10-12 and 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over
Grimmett in view of Dallmann.
Appellants first contest our observation, at footnote 1
on page 9 of the decision, that page 2 of the instant
specification admits that receivably removable SIMs were known
at the time of the instant invention and would appear to admit
that the use of different “types” of plug-in modules were also
known. Appellants contend that our assessment was incorrect
since the prior art radio telephones used the same type of
SIMs. However, at lines 18-19 of page 2 of the specification,
it is stated that “[a]t present the two standards are (a) a
credit card size SIM, and
(b) a plug-in SIM about 20mm x 25mm.” While the functionality
of these two SIMs may have been the same, the two known sizes
may be broadly considered two “types.” This is what we
intended to convey in our observation.
Appellants next contend that our decision was in error in
that while Grimmett’s switch 15 only switches between two NAMs
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