Appeal No. 1999-2213
Application No. 08/641,956
Claims 1-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Bradbury and in view of Norman.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
appellant regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 13, mailed Mar. 2, 1999) for the examiner's reasoning in support of
the rejection, and to appellant's brief (Paper No. 12, filed Dec. 4, 1998) for the
appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
appellant's specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by appellant and the examiner. As a consequence of
our review, we make the determinations which follow.
Appellant traverses the examiner rejection and specifically the examiner’s
reliance upon the use of the computer disclosed by Bradbury to access the Internet via
a wireless modem. (See brief at page 4.) Appellant argues that the claimed invention
is a dedicated cellular network that does not use a modem to translate analog signals to
digital signals and that the system includes a plurality of dedicated portable cellular
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