Appeal No. 2002-1946
Application 08/988,080
OPINION
We reverse.
As expressed at the bottom of page 3 of the principal brief
on appeal and in accordance with the arguments in this brief,
appellants focus upon a feature common to each independent claim
on appeal of instructing a calling party to terminate a
connection to the packet switched network (or Internet) to make a
line available for incoming calls if the calling party wishes to
receive said call on said same line as said connection to the
packet switched network (Internet).
Assuming for the sake of argument that Rondeau and Low are
properly combinable within 35 U.S.C. § 103, we agree with
appellants' basic urging that the noted feature would not have
been taught or suggested within 35 U.S.C. § 103 to the artisan.
In Rondeau, for example, terminal server 26, database server
28, telephone server 30 and LAN 32 suggest the use of a packet
switch network or Internet system to the extent recited in the
claims on appeal. However, the link from the terminal 18 to the
database server 28, once established, appears to be never lost or
disconnected in any manner once data is retrieved by the database
server for access by the terminal user, for subsequent access-
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