Appeal No. 2006-1084 Reexamination Control No. 90/006,334 1 References relied on by the Examiner 2 Abraham US 5,983,270 Nov. 9, 1999 3 Cirasole US 5,987,606 Nov. 16, 1999 4 Engel US 5,124,984 Jun. 23, 1992 5 Shwed EP 658,837 A2 Jun. 21 1995 6 7 Steven W. Lodin & Christoph L. Schuba, Firewalls Fend off Invasions From 7 the Net, IEEE SPECTRUM, Feb. 1998, at 26-34. 8 9 Lincoln D. Stein, Web Security: A Step-By-Step Reference Guide 387 10 (Addison-Wesley 1998) (1960). 11 12 W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated: The Protocols 1-12, 29-30, 143- 13 150 (Addison-Wesley 1994). 14 15 16 The Rejections on Appeal 17 The Examiner rejected claims 15-18 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second 18 paragraph, as being indefinite. 19 The Examiner rejected claims 1, 4-12, and 14-15 under 35 U.S.C. 20 § 102(e) as being anticipated by Abraham. 21 The Examiner rejected claims 1, 4, 9 and 15 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) 22 as being anticipated by Cirasole. 23 The Examiner rejected claims 1-9, and 11-18 under 35 U.S.C. 24 § 102(b) as being anticipated by Engel. 25 The Examiner rejected claim 10 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being 26 unpatentable over Engle and Shwed. 27 The Examiner rejected claims 2, 3 and 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as 28 being unpatentable over Abraham and Lodin. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
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