Appeal No. 1999-2304
Application 08/667,242
directory service, but rather, the invention only requires
that such a service be accessed [brief, page 10].
We again agree with the position argued by appellants.
The claimed invention only requires that access to remote
independent public directory services be facilitated, not that
such services be created. The examiner has not provided any
reasonable basis for asserting that this access would require
undue experimentation to implement. Therefore, we do not
sustain this rejection of the appealed claims.
We now consider the rejections of the claims under 35
U.S.C. § 103. In rejecting claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103, it
is incumbent upon the examiner to establish a factual basis to
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