Appeal No. 1997-3822
Application No. 08/406,668
residence may be used to store the content of a message. A
memory device of a transmitting and receiving apparatus 3 or
3' provided for that purpose is indicated as a memory 35 or
35'." (Col. 7, lines 37-41.) Appellant does not dispute the
examiner's position that this passage calls for transmitting
the message from the transmitting telephone device to the
memory 35 in the receiving telephone device (Answer at 4). We
note that in describing such an arrangement, Nagata further
specifies that "[i]n this case, if a transmitting and
receiving apparatus provided with a handset 32 is used, it is
made possible to confirm only the message by taking up the
handset" (col. 7, lines 41-44). However, Nagata does not
disclose any details about the circuitry which controls either
recording of the message in memory 35 of the receiving
telephone device or playback of the recorded message through
the handset.
Turning now to the claims, we note that appellant and the
examiner specifically argue the limitations of only claim 1,
which is narrower than the other independent claims, i.e.,
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