Appeal No. 1998-1181
Application No. 08/442,883
Clark Corp., 713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir.
1983).
Appellants argue that Blair does not disclose the claimed6
step of "defining a plurality of home system identification
codes (SIDs)" or "automatically selecting the cellular carrier
corresponding to the detected SID matching any home SID of the
plurality of home SIDs".
In reply to the Examiner's assertion that the abstract of
Blair discloses the use of plural home SIDs, Appellants argue
that the intended meaning of the abstract is that the cellular
telephone checks the carrier signal's SID against only one
home SID entered into the cellular telephone unit's memory.
Appellants point to column 5, lines 8-13 of the specification
of Blair, which references figures 4 and 5, as directed to
locking onto a frequency of “the” home system (Appellants'
emphasis).
Appellants also disagree with the Examiner's statement7
that "a home SID and one or more good SIDs are considered as a
plurality of home SIDs since these SIDs have been stored in
6 Brief, Section I, page 12.
7In the Advisory Action.
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