Appeal No. 2003-1632
Application 09/173,991
upon the serial number of any computer that may be attributed to
any of the remote collection system (RCS) computers and the in-
vehicle units (IVU). As such, Chaum clearly cannot anticipate
the subject matter as a whole of respective independent claims 56
and 60. Likewise, their corresponding dependent claims cannot
be met by Chaum and its combination with respect to the other
references relied upon under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
We do, however, sustain the rejection of the other
independent claims 40, 46, 70 and 73. Representative claim 40
requires providing a password associated with a so-called tag
computer to the remote computer via a wireless link, and the
associated notification feature at the end of representative
claim 40 of notification if the remote computer determines that
the password is acceptable. Generally corresponding features
are recited in independent claim 46 which is not argued by
appellants (Brief, page 9) to distinguish in any manner over the
corresponding method claim 40. Generally, independent claim 70
contains a feature of monitoring the communication between an
embedded computer and a remote computer via the wireless link,
which feature corresponds in a broader form to the password
limitation of independent claim 40. It is further noted that
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