Appl. No. 10/595,145
Amdt. Dated January 14, 2010
Reply to Office action of September 14, 2009
Attorney Docket No. P18227-US1
EUS/GJ/P/1 0-7505
REMARKS/ARGUMENTS
1. ) Claim Amendments
The Applicant has amended independent claims 1, 2, 5, and 6. Applicant
respectfully submits no new matter has been added. Accordingly, claims 1-7 are
pending in the application. Favorable reconsideration of the application is respectfully
requested in view of the foregoing amendments and the following remarks.
2. ) Examiner Objections - Claims
Claims 2, 5 and 6 were objected to because of informalities. Again, the Applicant
appreciates the Examiner's thorough review of the claims. The Applicant has amended
the claims as suggested by the Examiner in order to correct the informalities. The
Examiner's consideration of the amended claims is respectfully requested.
3. ) Claim Rejections - 35 U.S.C. ยง 102(b)
Claims 5-7 and 1-4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) as being anticipated
by Albers, era/. (U.S. Patent No. 6,097,798). Applicant respectfully disagrees.
Albers is directed to wiretapping using a 5ESS switch. It appears that the
Examiner reads the interface functionality of the 5ESS switch on a media handling node
of the present application. A 5ESS switch has nothing to do with a media handling node
of an IMS domain. However, Applicant recognizes that the Examiner is reading the
claims in the broadest sense possible. As such, Applicant has amended independent
claims 1 and 5 to recite " the media handling node comprising a gateway of an internet
protocol mul timedia subsystem domain ". Clearly, Albers does not teach, disclose, or
suggest this limitation.
In view of the above arguments, Applicant asserts that independent claims 1 and
5 are patentable over the Albers reference. Dependent claims 2-4, 6 and 7 are
patentable at least by virtue of depending from their respective base claim.
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Appl. No. 10/595,145
Amdt. Dated January 14, 2010
Reply to Office action of September 14, 2009
Attorney Docket No. P18227-US1
EUS/GJ/P/1 0-7505
In view of the foregoing remarks, the Applicant believes ail of the claims currently
pending in the Application to be in a condition for allowance. The Applicant, therefore,
respectfully requests that the Examiner withdraw all rejections and issue a Notice of
Allowance for all pending claims.
The Applicant requests a telephonic interview if the Examiner has any questions
or requires any additional information that would further or expedite the prosecution of
the Application.
Date: January 14. 2010
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CONCLUSION
nomas Bethea, Jr
legislation No. 53,987
illy submitted,
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