Appeal No. 2005-2329
Application No. 09/738,293
the prior art anyway.
In view of the foregoing, we are not persuaded by appellants’
principal arguments in the brief as to the rejection of claim 1 that the
applied prior art does not individually and collectively teach the use of
switched telephone networks.
As to the separate arguments of dependent claims 47 and 48,
appellants have not argued that the applied prior art does not teach or
suggest the subject matter of intervening intermediate claims 42, 45, and
46 from which claim 47 depends in turn, and then that claim 48 in turn
depends from claim 47. The examiner has made note of this dependency
at pages 20 and 21 of the answer. The claimed service switching point in
claim 47 has already been admitted by appellants at page 32 of the
specification to be a part of the known public switched telephone network
displayed for example in Figures 3 and 4 of the specification as filed. In
fact, this page also indicates that the virtual switching point VSP 60 is also
known to be a part of the CCS network also known to be in prior art
telephone network capabilities. Additional pages of the specification also
contain teachings of the nature of prior art telephone systems. To the
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