Appeal No. 2006-2679
Application No. 10/359,882
demonstrate that the earlier-filed application contains §§120/112 support for the
invention claimed in the reference patent.”). In any event, appellants do not contest the
presumption that Asano constitutes prior art.1
Instant claim 1 recites that printing occurs “immediately” after receipt of a first
ring signal. The adverb is used in a relative, rather than absolute, sense. As noted in
appellants’ specification, the caller ID information is normally transferred after the first
ring signal, and before the second ring signal. The controller would not possess the
caller ID information until a measurable period after the first ring signal.
We disagree with appellants’ assessment (Brief at 7) that Sawaya “fails to
disclose the automatic printing of caller ID information. . . .” Aside from the general
teachings relating to receiving and printing such information, the reference describes
automatically printing known information, such as time and date of a call, onto paper
prior to the paper being fed over a graphics pad (e.g., element 410, Fig. 4) to receive
handwritten information. The reference further describes printing caller ID information
along with message-related indicia such as lines to be filled in with new information. As
the examiner points out, the controller may be operative to automatically advance the
paper supply upon receipt of each incoming telephone call. Col. 3, l. 35 - col. 4, l. 5.
1 Moreover, appellants’ specification (at the bottom of page 2) acknowledges that caller ID
information is typically sent over the phone line between the first and second ring signals of an incoming
call.
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