Appeal No. 2006-1084 Reexamination Control No. 90/006,334 1 According to claims 2 and 13, the monitoring, receiving, assembling, and 2 information acquiring steps must take place outside of the direct path of 3 communication for the data packets in those communications. The 4 Examiner has failed to demonstrate that that is the case in Stein. 5 6 CONCLUSION 7 8 The indefiniteness rejection of claims 15-18 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, 9 second paragraph, is reversed. 10 The rejection of claims 1, 4-12, and 14-15 as anticipated by Abraham 11 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) is reversed. 12 The rejection of claims 1, 4, 9 and 15 as anticipated by Cirasole under 13 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) is reversed. 14 The rejection of claims 1-9 and 11-18 as anticipated by Engel under 15 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is reversed. 16 The rejection of claim 10 as unpatentable over Engel under 35 U.S.C. 17 § 103 is reversed. 18 The rejection of claims 2, 3, and 13 as unpatentable over Abraham 19 and Lodin under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed. 20 The rejection of claims 2, 3, and 13 as unpatentable over Abraham 21 and Stein under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed. 24Page: Previous 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Next
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