Appeal No. 2000-1520
Application No. 08/768,715 Page 15
automatically performed in response to input of said start key,
while said telephone number is displayed on said display unit" is
not found in col. 14, lines 5-19, relied upon by the examiner.
Appellant provides no reasons why appellant believes that this
limitation is not met by the cited portion of Hirai other than to
assert (reply brief, page 4) that the response transmission
switch 33 of Hirai does not correspond to the start key of the
recited claims.
From our review of Hirai, we agree with the examiner that
Hirai teaches (col. 14, lines 5-19) that when the subscriber
pushes down on the response transmission switch 33, the displayed
telephone number Nt2 designated by underline Ld is called by dial
signal sending circuit 34. Accordingly, the rejection of claim 6
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) is affirmed.
We turn next to claim 9. Appellant asserts (brief, page 11)
that col. 4, lines 45-56 of Hirai does not teach the step of
receiving caller ID between ring signals during an incoming call
to the telephone system, as asserted by the examiner. We find
that claim 9 contains the same language as claim 8. We affirm
the rejection of claim 9 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) based upon our
findings with respect to claim 8, supra.
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