Appeal 2007-0964
Application 09/984,929
FINDINGS OF FACT
Appellant’s Specification discusses a method of creating e-mail distribution
lists. Appellant’s Specification, on page 4, states:
The present invention also extends [sic, to] a computer program
arranged to implement the method of the invention and to a storage medium
or data carrier carrying a computer program arranged to implement the
method of the invention.
As the Specification states the program can be on a storage medium or data
carrier, it implies that the two ways of conveying the program are different. Thus,
we find that Appellant’s Specification discusses two ways to convey the computer
program, 1) a storage medium and 2) a data carrier (i.e. a signal) and not that the
storage medium is a carrier signal.
Terada teaches an e-mail system which allows for the automatic creation of
an e-mail group. The e-mail group is created by examining the addresses entered
in an e-mail. Para. 0054. The triggering event for creating the distribution list is a)
delivering the e-mail, b) storing an e-mail created fresh, and c) delivering or
storing an already stored e-mail in which the destination address has been
modified. Para. 0053. In paragraphs 0054 et seq. Terada discusses the operation
of the system when the generation of an e-mail group is triggered by delivery of an
e-mail. Terada does not provide a descriptive example of the system’s operation to
create an e-mail distribution list when triggering events b) or c) occur. Figure 5
depicts the flow of creation of an e-mail and shows that storing an e-mail can occur
without delivering the e-mail. Thus we find that triggering events b) storing an e-
mail and c) storing an already stored e-mail in which the destination address has
been modified occur prior to delivery of the e-mail.
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