Appeal No. 2003-1873
Application 09/281,420
teaches adding a respondent ID to the responses at column 3, line
10-11. Clearly, such a unique identifier could be used to
prevent erroneous submission of redundant responses from the same
respondent. Thus, Bishop meets the claim limitations of claim 24
since the claim is silent as to the type of fault of which it is
tolerant.
Therefore, we will sustain the Examiner’s rejection under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
Conclusion
In view of the foregoing discussion, we have sustained the
rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 of claims 1-2, 8, 10, 19-21,
24-28, 34, 36, 45-47, 50 and 52 and we have not sustained the
rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 of claims 3, 6-7, 11-15, 17-18,
29, 32-33, 37-41, 43-44, and 51.
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