Appeal No. 1999-0224
Application No. 08/649,889
Claims 1, 2 and 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by Target
Technologies.
Claim 3 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Target Technologies in view of Mullett.
The respective positions of the examiner and the appellants with regard to the
propriety of these rejections are set forth in the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 10) and the
appellants’ brief (Paper No. 9).
The Rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
Claims 1, 2 and 4
After consideration of the positions and arguments presented by both the examiner
and the appellants, we have concluded that the rejection should not be sustained.
With respect to sole independent claim 1, we are of the opinion that the examiner
has not established that the ISDN Network of Target Technologies is a graphics/command
network. An Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is known in
the communications art as a digital telephone line which provides users with simultaneous
(integrated) voice/data capability. The reference itself is sketchy, and it does not identify
the ISDN Network as a graphics/command network. It is not
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