Appeal No. 2006-2434
Application No. 10/197,148
Rejections at Issue
A. Claims 1 through 4, 6, 8 through 17, 19 through 24, 27, 29
through 34, 36 and 38 through 42 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over the combination of Cryptography
and Network Security by William Stallings (Stallings) and
Security Routing Analysis for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by Dan
Nguyen et al. (Nguyen).
B. Claims 7, 18, 26 and 37 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over the combination of Stallings, Nguyen,
and Hanson (US Patent No. 6,546,425).
REASONS FOR REMAND
The Examiner’s statements of the rejections of claims 1
through 4, 6 through 24, 26, 27, 29 through 34 and 36 through 42,
at pages 4 and 9 of the Examiner’s Answer (mailed on April 13,
2006), alleges that the claims are unpatentable over combinations
of Stallings, Nguyen, and Hanson. Particularly, the Examiner
relies substantially upon pages 186 through 189 of the primary
reference Stallings to establish a prima facie case of
obviousness against the cited claims. However, a review of the
record indicates that the cited pages are not included in the
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