Appeal No. 2003-0330
Application No. 09/533,805
We will not sustain the examiner’s rejection of
independent claims 1, 13, 23 or 32 or of any of the claims which
depend therefrom for essentially the reasons argued by appellants
in the briefs. Although we agree with the examiner that the
teachings of Donovan and Granberg are combinable for at least
some purposes, we agree with appellants that the combined
teachings fail to support the examiner’s rejection. Most
importantly, the examiner’s finding that prepaid calls can be
routed through the SCP of Granberg is unsupported by the
reference. The examiner simply equates prepaid calling with call
forwarding and call waiting although there is nothing in Granberg
which supports this assertion. There is nothing in Granberg
which suggests that the supplementary services, such as call
waiting, call forwarding and call barring, can include a service
such as prepaid calls. Appellants argue that the SCP of Granberg
does not apply to prepaid calling. On this record, there is no
evidence to support the examiner’s assertion that the prepaid
calls of Donovan can be routed in the claimed manner by using
SCPs as taught by Granberg. Although the collective teachings of
Donovan and Granberg suggest that in some cases call signaling
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