Appeal No. 2006-0479
Application No. 10/309,274
coordinator room through the pink door marked "To
Coordinator Room".
Once all invoicing and paperwork have been taken
care of, the patient takes the door advantageously
marked "Lobby" to exit the coordinator room [column 36,
lines 6-61].
As conceded by the examiner (see pages 7, 12 and 13 in the
answer), the combined teachings of Pulkkinen and Crane do not
respond to the limitations in claim 6 relating to the main
corridor, the plurality of perpendicular hallways, the sequential
numbering of rooms and the entrance sign, or to the limitations
in claim 12 relating to the sequentially increasing or decreasing
room numbers, the main corridor, the plurality of perpendicular
hallways and the number range signs. To cure these evidentiary
shortcomings, the examiner takes Official Notice of the existence
of two methods respectively encompassing the features in claims 6
and 12 admittedly missing from Pulkkinen and Crane and concludes
that it would have been obvious to combine these officially
noticed methods with Pulkkinen and Crane to arrive at the subject
matter recited in these claims.
In response to a challenge made by the appellant in the
briefs and a remand from this Board (mailed February 10, 2005),
the examiner proffers three separate items (see Appendices A-C in
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