Appeal No. 1997-3276 Page 9
Application No. 08/478,567
Regarding the obviousness of claims 40-50, the
appellant’s argument follows.
[S]ince none of the applied references discloses or
suggests the presently claimed invention including
the control menu to input criteria data insufficient
to obtain a unique telephone number based on the
criteria number and sufficient to obtain a plurality
of criteria telephone numbers based on the criteria
data and communication data for retrieving the
criteria telephone numbers for the display via the
telephone line, the combination of these applied
references do not disclose or suggest the presently
claimed invention. (Appeal Br. at 7.)
The examiner replies, “The electronic phone book is disclosed
by both Noto or Sato.” (Examiner’s Answer at 16.) He adds,
“Iggulden does disclose retrieving and storing a telephone
number from a telephone line and it is extremely important
since the resulting combination would disclose or suggest the
claimed invention to one of ordinary skill in the art.” (Id.)
The examiner also adds the following assertion.
Walsh is relied upon to show that it is well known
to dial into an electronic directory service and
retrieve a wanted telephone number and to also store
and display the thus retrieved telephone number at
the subscriber station for future use such that the
correct updated telephone number for addressing a
call is obtained for use[d] by the user. (Id. at
19.)
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