Appeal No. 2000-2276
Application No. 08/727,730
Yang, “INETPhone: Telephone Services and Servers on Internet,”
Request For Comments: 1789 (Univ. of North Texas, Apr. 1995).1
Claims 1 through 3, 14 through 18, 20 through 25, 31 through
33, 36 through 40, 42 and 43 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Pohjakallio in view of Yang
and Glaser.
Claims 8 through 13 and 41 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Pohjakallio in view of Yang,
Glaser and Goodman.
Reference is made to the briefs (paper numbers 24 and 26)
and the answer (paper number 25) for the respective positions of
the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1 through
3, 8 through 18, 20 through 25, 31 through 33 and 36 through 43.
At the outset, we note that appellant questions whether Yang
is a valid reference since April 1995 is not the only date on the
Internet publication, and because all of the material disclosed
therein may not have been in the Internet publication on the
1 According to the examiner (answer, page 3), this reference
was obtained via the Internet on Feb. 12, 1997.
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