Appeal No. 1998-1181
Application No. 08/442,883
the memory of a portable telephone by a service technician".
Appellants contend that there is a distinction between home
and good SIDs and Blair recognizes the distinction between
home SIDs and other classes of SIDs.
Finally, in the Reply Brief Appellants note the 8
applicability of 35 U.S.C. § 112, sixth paragraph, to at least
claims 55-57, and to claims 46-49 if the last element of claim
46 invokes this section of the statute.
The Examiner contends that the abstract and figures 4-59
of Blair teach the selection process for the determination
whether the selected SID is matched with one of the home SIDs.
In addition the Examiner asserts 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 the memory 16 of the
portable telephone by a service technician.
We find that in claims 55-57 all of the elements of the
claimed apparatus are written in means-plus-function language.
The claim subparagraphs all recite means for performing a
specified function without the recital of structure to perform
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9 Answer, page 11.
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