Appeal No. 1998-2974
Application No. 08/524,106
anticipated by Darden; his rejection of claims 17, 19, and 21
as being obvious over Darden in view of Hanle and Larkey; and
his rejection of claims 25-27 as being obvious over Darden in
view of Rhee. In addition, I would enter a new ground of
rejection under 37 C.F.R. § 1.196(b). Specifically, I would
reject at least claims 14 and 24 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being obvious over U.S. Patent No. 4,922,519 (Daudelin) (copy 1
attached) in view of Larkey.
The appellants admit that employing a speech recognizer
in a telecommunications networking environment was known in
the art, citing Daudelin as evidence thereof. Specifically,
“the speech recognizer itself can be located ... in the
network as in United States Patent No. 4,922,519.” (Spec. at
1.) Although Daudelin describes “an illustrative embodiment
of [its] invention,” col. 16, ll. 57-58, the reference
emphasizes that "various and numerous other arrangements may
be devised by one skilled in the art ....” Col. 17, ll. 3-5.
1Daudelin was patented on May 1, 1990.
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