Reexamination Control No. 90/005,742
Patent 5,253,341
1 reversing the rejection of claim 101 for anticipation by Walter.
2 (2) Claim 103 – obvious over Walter in view of Kirchner?
3 Claim 103 repeats the preamble and paragraphs (a) to (d) of claim 93 and recites as
4 step (e): "wherein said remote query and data retrieval means is mobile."
5 The term "mobile" is not defined in the '341 patent and appears therein in only the
6 following sentence: "It is yet a further object of the present invention to provide a remote query
7 communication system in which the end user station is mobile." '341 patent, col. 1, ll. 59-61.
8 Neither the examiner nor the appellant has provided a definition of "mobile" as used in the claim.
9 Broadly defined, "mobile" simply means "[c]apable of moving or being moved from place to
10 place." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 842 (New College Edition,
11 1975). However, in the context of the needs allegedly solved by the invention, it is reasonable to
12 interpret “mobile” as used in the claim more narrowly as requiring that the "remote query and
13 data retrieval means" (with or without the remaining components of the disclosed end user
14 station) be capable of convenient transportation from one location to another, such as from the
15 office to a hotel:
16 There has long been a need to provide a system, method and
17 device which can rapidly enter, communicate, distribute and/or retrieve
18 data and display the data in a timely fashion for a variety of applications.
19 Such a system and method could be utilized to immediately access and
20 rapidly display information relevant to new consumer products, financial
21 information, real estate listings, travel accommodations and special events
22 or performances and the like at an end user station as well as provide
23 timely updates of such information. The device could be conveniently
24 located in a home, office or hotel and could be conveniently transported.
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