Appeal No. 1997-3178
Application 08/464,069
With respect to claims 30 and 37, the Examiner refers
to column 8, lines 8-24. We do not find anything in the
cited portion of Kaufman, or in the rest of Kaufman, that
constitutes instructions originated by the legitimate
computer user to be followed by the trustee in the event an
applicant seeks to gain access to secret information in the
digital data structure in figure 4 of Kaufman. The
anticipation rejection of claims 30 and 37 over Kaufman is
reversed.
With respect to claim 39, the Examiner refers to the
user's private key at column 8, line 28 (EA7). However, we
do not find any question authored by the legitimate computer
user to be posed by the trustee attempting to recover a
password or encryption key in the digital data structure in
figure 4 of Kaufman and the Examiner does not point to
anything that would meet this limitation. The anticipation
rejection of claim 39 over Kaufman is reversed.
With respect to claim 45, the Examiner points to
column 8, lines 20-25 (EA8). We do not find the steps of
obtaining and comparing credentials, as claimed, at that
location or elsewhere in Kaufman. The anticipation
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