Appeal No. 1997-3822
Application No. 08/406,668
Nagata et al. (Nagata) 4,677,657 Jun. 30, 1987
Perelman 5,274,696 Dec. 28, 1993
Claims 1, 2, 5-9, 11, 14-21, and 24-31 stand rejected
under § 103 for obviousness over Nagata.
Claims 12, 13, 22, 23, 32, and 33 stand rejected under §
103 for obviousness over Nagata in view of Perelman. Because
none of these claims are separately argued, it is not
necessary for us to consider Perelman.
D. The merits of the rejection based on Nagata alone
Nagata's Figure 6 shows a communication system which
employs transmitting and receiving apparatuses 3 and 3' having
respective slots 31 for receiving cards 1 and 1', each of
which cards includes a memory 22 (Fig. 3) for storing voice-
mail messages and other circuitry for writing messages into
and reading messages out of the memory. Transmitting and
receiving apparatus 3 (Fig. 6) includes a handset 32 and
keypad 33, permitting it to be used as an ordinary push-button
telephone (col. 7, lines 5-7). If the capability of handling
ordinary telephone calls is not desired, the handset and
keypad can be omitted, resulting in the transmitting and
receiving apparatus identified as 3' in Figure 6 (col. 7,
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