Appeal No. 1998-2372 Page 5
Application No. 08/639,815
application and reference relies to some extent upon knowledge
of persons skilled in the art to complement that [which is]
disclosed ....’”
In re Bode, 550 F.2d 656, 660, 193 USPQ 12, 16 (CCPA 1977)
(quoting In re Wiggins, 488 F.2d 538, 543, 179 USPQ 421, 424
(CCPA 1973)). Those persons “must be presumed to know
something” about the art “apart from what the references
disclose.”
In re Jacoby, 309 F.2d 513, 516, 135 USPQ 317, 319 (CCPA
1962). With the aforementioned principles and finding in
mind, we consider the appellant's arguments and the examiner's
responses regarding the following claims:
• claims 1, 2, 8-11, and 14
• claim 4.
We first address claims 1, 2, 8-11, and 14.
Claims 1, 2, 8-11, and 14
The appellant argues, "[t]he references do not show a
memory storing information about time zone boundaries ...."
(Appeal Br. at 5.) The examiner responds, "[t]he Deluca [sic]
Reference includes a memory means which contains data to
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