Appeal No. 2000-1377
Application No. 08/628,415
addressee and sorts the mail. If the addressee’s name is identified but the address is
incorrect, a forwarding label is prepared including the proper address of the addressee
and the mail is sorted to an appropriate bin for forwarding. When the address changes,
Tilles discloses that the database may be updated to include the new address without
erasing the old address. Thus, both the old and new address of a user are stored at the
same time.
The examiner recognizes that Tilles fails to disclose the claimed address-exchange
server but takes the position that Tilles suggests this claimed invention since Tilles
discloses “two computers, real time software modules and Ethernet network (see column
11, lines 1-15, column 13, lines 1-29)” [answer-page 3]. Therefore, concludes the
examiner, it would have been obvious to modify Tilles by including a server, since Tilles
suggests the use of Ethernet network, computers and real time software modules to
implement the system. We disagree.
Tilles does not suggest that the computers and Ethernet network disclosed therein
are to be used, in any manner, as an “address-exchange server,” as claimed. There is
absolutely no suggestion anywhere in the four corners of Tilles that the computers and
Ethernet network disclosed therein are intended for an e-mail system operated as claimed
by appellant.
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