Appeal 2007-0288
Application 10/715,408
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the Examiner's
Final Rejection of claims 1-13, which are all of the pending claims.
We REVERSE and enter a New Grounds of Rejection under 37 C.F.R.
41.50(b).
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to an E-mail system with user send
authorization. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. An e-mail method, comprising:
recognizing whether a complete electronic mail message not created
by a user and having a valid recipient address is to be sent, after a
send function has been initiated, from a sending side to a receiving
side;
alerting a system user on the sending side as to the message being
sent; and
allowing the user to authorize sending of the message.
PRIOR ART
The prior art references of record relied upon by the Examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Chrabaszcz US 6,073,133 Jun. 6, 2000
Rollins US 6,434,601 B1 Aug. 13, 2002
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