Appeal No. 1998-2936
Application No. 08/665,590
limitations set forth in the claim. Here, we note that the language of claim 16 is quite broad
in the recitation of the step of “initiating the placement of a telephone call in accordance
with signaling information exchanged between said telephone and said base station.” We
note that the language of the claim does not limit the type of input from the user, wherein it
may be manual actuation of a key or a voice input. Further-more, the claim does not limit
the signaling between the units.
Hence, the initiation of the call need only be “in accordance with signaling
information exchanged between said telephone and said base station.” (Emphasis
added.) In our view, all cellular telephones must communicate with the base station within
each cell as a cellular telephone is moved from cell to cell wherein there is a required
communication between a cellular telephone and a base station to register the phone
within a cell. All calls made would be required to be made “in accordance with signaling
information exchanged between said telephone and said base station.”
With this said, we turn to the rejection by the examiner. The examiner offers Burke
and Gerson as evidence of obviousness. The examiner maintains that the user’s input
from pressing the “telephone” key signals information exchange between the mobile unit
and base station. (See answer at page 4 and Burke at col. 10.) It is unclear from the cited
passage of Burke whether the actuation of the “telephone” key
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