Appeal No. 2006-2513
Application No. 10/060,782
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to a method of specifying destinations of electronic mail
transmitted to multiple recipients including both a group name having multiple mail
addresses and a personal name. (Spec. at 1.) Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method of setting destinations of electronic mail transmitted using
electronic mail software from a communication terminal to multiple destinations,
comprising the steps of:
predefining in the electronic mail software an addition symbol to add two
destinations selected from a list of destinations including a group name
representing mail addresses of multiple members; and
placing said addition symbol between one and the other destinations in a
destination section on a screen for composing an outgoing mail to thereby set
destinations including the mail addresses of said one and the other destinations,
wherein the addition symbol is selected from the group consisting of the + symbol
and the & symbol.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Meister et al. (Meister) US 6,671,718 B1 Dec. 30, 2003
Sheldon et al. (Sheldon) US 6,708,205 B2 Mar. 16, 2004
Minich et al. (Minich), Searching the Web, available at http://www.minich.com/
interneteducation/searching/search.html, last visited Aug. 12, 2004 (1999).
Claims 1, 2, 9, and 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. ' 103 as being
unpatentable over Meister and Sheldon.
Claims 3-8, 10-15, and 17-21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. ' 103 as being
unpatentable over Meister, Sheldon, and Minich.
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