Appeal No. 2000-2238 Page 4
Application No. 08/826,922
input request, selecting a user response to each request. . . ." Similarly, independent
claim 7 specifies in pertinent part the following limitations: "the communication device
presents to the user data input options according to said structure. . . .” Also similarly,
independent claim 13 specifies in pertinent part the following limitations: "storing at
least one application in said storage medium, wherein said application includes, a
series of questions relating to said application, a series of answers to said questions,
and a series of message components, suitable for transmission in the short message
service, correlated to said answers; . . . answering said series of presented questions
by selecting from the stored series of answers through the use of the input device. . . .”
Similarly, independent claim 14 specifies in pertinent part the following limitations: " a
memory for storing a separate data input request for each field and at least one input
response for each request; a display for presenting the stored input response to the
user; a data input device for allowing the user to select a stored input response. . . .”
Giving the independent claims their broadest, reasonable construction, the limitations
require that a communications device stores, presents to a user, or allows a user to
select one or more predetermined answers to at least one question.
“[H]aving ascertained exactly what subject matter is being claimed, the next
inquiry must be into whether such subject matter is novel.” In re Wilder, 429 F2d 447,
450, 166 USPQ 545, 548 (CCPA 1970). “A claim is anticipated only if each and every
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