Appeal No. 2006-2106 Page 2
Application No. 09/585,767
local official language in at least one of voice and characters for use in
emergency communication.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as follows:
1. A portable telephone terminal device having a function of
receiving an international roaming service for receiving a service in a
country or a district when a user is away from a country and a district in
which the user has made a contract for the service, the device comprising:
storage means for storing telephone number information about
telephone numbers of at least a police station, a fire department, an
embassy, and medical facilities in a country or a district in which the user
is roaming, and for storing emergency information in a formatted text in a
local official language in at least one of voice and characters which is
used in emergency communication.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Calaman 6,294,993 Sep. 25, 2001
(Filed Jul. 06, 1999)
Raith 6,625,457 Sep. 23, 2003
(Filed Apr. 11, 2000)
Claims 1-18, all of the appealed claims, stand finally rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Raith in view of Calaman.
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellant and the Examiner,
reference is made to the Briefs1 and the Answer for the respective details.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on appeal, the rejection
advanced by the Examiner and the evidence of obviousness relied upon by the
Examiner as support for the rejection. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken
1 The Appeal Brief was filed February 28, 2005. In response to the Examiner’s Answer
(second) mailed February 10, 2006, a Reply Brief was filed March 29, 2006, which was
acknowledged and entered by the Examiner in the communication dated April 28, 2006.
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