Appeal No. 2002-2174
Application No. 09/263,166 Page 28
carrier bid, we find no reason to separately store consumer
identification information. Accordingly, the rejection of claim
43, and claims 44-51 dependent therefrom, under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) is reversed.
We turn next to claims 96, 982 and 100-102. Appellants
assert, inter alia, (brief, pages 33-40) that Johnson does not
teach that the network is the Internet and that there is no
teaching to apply the Internet to Johnson. It is argued that to
apply the Internet to Johnson's invention, would require a
description of how to modify Johnson's interface and subscribing
switches to operate on the Internet and how to produce all of the
other features of appellants' invention. In addition, appellants
do not question the examiner's assertion that the Web is known,
but assert that there is no suggestion in Johnson of how to
modify it to operate on the Web in the manner of appellants'
invention. Appellants additionally argue that there is no
suggestion of how Johnson can be modified to produce the
appellants’ inventive use of URLs.
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2We observe that there is no antecedent basis in claim 98 for the term
"reference." However, as the meets and bounds of the claim can be understood
from a reading of appellants' disclosure, we consider this to be a formal
matter that the examiner can address subsequent to the appeal.
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