Appeal No. 2004-0297
Application No. 09/265,451
§ 103(a) rejection of claim 79 as being unpatentable over Tamada
in view of Danielson and Hale.
Claims 63 and 66
Claim 63 is an independent claim which recites a method of
using a pocket-sized device of the type in question. The method
requires the step of transmitting account information from the
device to a point of sale terminal via the display of the device.
Because the applied references, including the portion of Tamada
pointed to by the examiner, do not teach, and would not have
suggested, a method having this step, we shall not sustain the
standing 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of claim 63, and dependent
claim 66, as being unpatentable over Tamada in view of Danielson
and Hale.
Claim 67
Claim 67 is an independent claim which recites a method of
conducting a credit card transaction. The appellant contends
that the rejection thereof is unsound because the applied
references do not teach, and would not have suggested, a method
meeting the limitations in the claim requiring the steps of
establishing an electronic communication between a universal
electronic transaction card and a point of sale transaction
system and transmitting a transaction record for a credit
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