Ex parte BUTLER et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 2000-0935                                                        
          Application 08/567,447                                                      

               Claims 1, 3, 6-7, 12-14 and 16-18 stand rejected under 35              
          U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable for obviousness over                     
          Spencer.                                                                    
               Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being                 
          unpatentable over Spencer and Johnson.                                      
               A rejection of claim 15 as being directed to non-                      
          statutory subject matter has been withdrawn by the examiner.                
                                    The Invention                                     
               The claimed invention is directed to a business                        
          information repository system (independent claim 1), a method               
          for processing business information (independent claim 12),                 
          and a population engine operable to parse raw business                      
          information data and suggest key words to be used to access                 
          abstracts of the raw business information data (independent                 
          claim 14).                                                                  
               A previous rejection of claim 15 under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as              
          being directed to non-statutory subject matter has been                     
          withdrawn by the examiner.                                                  
               Independent claims 1, 12 and 14 are reproduced below:                  
               1.  A business information repository system                           
               accessible by a user, comprising:                                      


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