Appeal No. 2006-1734
Application 09/855,624
the teachings of a reference may be taken in combination with knowledge of
the skilled artisan to put the artisan in possession of the claimed invention
within 35 U.S.C. § 102 even though the patent does not specifically disclose
certain features.
Moreover, as we indicated earlier that appellants have not argued the
combinability of Crowle with Aziz within the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of
independent claim 15, it is again noted that the middle paragraph of column
1 in Crowle teaches the corresponding types of networks disclosed and
relied upon by appellants as the basis of their invention and which we have
pointed out earlier are also used in the environment of Aziz. Significantly,
within the context of Wide Area Networks respectively and Local Area
Networks in Crowle, it is stated that a “packet contains a few hundred to a
few thousand bytes of data and generally two addresses, a source address
and a destination address” at column 1, lines 40 through 43 in the context of
these networks. Additionally, the formal Internet protocol we have
identified earlier (TCP/IP) is discussed in the next paragraph at column 1 of
Crowle.
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