Appeal No. 2003-2074
Application No. 09/095,325
transmitting the reply messages from the host system to the
plurality of message senders.
The examiner relies on no references.
Claims 33-114 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph, as being based on an inadequate written description.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the
respective positions of appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
It is the examiner’s position that claims 33-114 contain
subject matter which was not described in the specification in
such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant
art that the inventors, at the time the application was filed,
had possession of the claimed invention. In particular, the
examiner contends that each of the instant independent claims
recites a first address at or associated to the host system as
seen from the plurality of clients as the address of the mobile
client. As an example, the examiner cites claim 33 as reciting
“receiving messages directed to a first address at the host
system from a plurality of message senders and continuously
forwarding the messages of that address to the mobile client” and
as reciting “that reply messages from the mobile client would be
replied through the host system to the plurality of clients and
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