Appeal No. 2000-1520
Application No. 08/768,715 Page 8
Hirai with the ability to store telephone numbers in a registry
for display either as LIFO and/or FIFO in view of the teachings
of Figa. Thus, from our review of Hirai and Figa, we find no
support for appellant's general assertions that Hirai teaches
away from the combination, or that there is no teaching or
suggestion to combine the teachings of Hirai and Figa.
Accordingly, the rejection of claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) is
affirmed.
We turn next to claim 8. Appellant asserts (brief, page 9)
that claim 8 teaches the step of receiving caller ID between ring
signals during an incoming call to the telephone system, and that
the portion of Hirai relied upon by the examiner (col.4, lines
45-56) does not teach this feature. In response, the examiner
(answer, page 7) points to (col. 11, lines 35-64) of Hirai for a
teaching that when a call is received, ring signals are
intermittently provided, and that "a piece of telephone number
data subsequent to a first ring signal among the ring signals is
provided to the telephone terminal equipment 31 . . . a piece of
telephone number data subsequent to the first ring signal is
detected in the telephone number detection circuit."
We find that in addition to the passage referred to by the
examiner, that Figa teaches (col. 3, lines 47-53) that the
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