Appeal No. 1999-0154
Application 08/553,201
of complying with the burden of presenting a prima facie case
of
obviousness. Note In re Oetiker, 977 F.2d 1443, 1445, 24
USPQ2d
1443, 1444 (Fed. Cir. 1992).
With respect to the obviousness rejection of all of the
appealed independent claims 1, 5, 7, and 11 based on Olsen,
Appellants assert the Examiner’s failure to establish a prima
facie case of obviousness since all of the claim limitations
are not taught or suggested by the applied Olsen reference.
In particular, Appellants contend (Brief, page 12) that Olsen,
which generates a billing invoice to a requestor for services
related to validation of credit card information, at best
discloses only one feature of the appealed claims, i.e. the
generation of a billing detail record.
After careful review of the Olsen reference, we are in
agreement with Appellants’ position as stated in the Briefs.
Our interpretation of the disclosure of Olsen coincides with
that of Appellants, i.e. while Olsen arguably discloses
generation of a billing detail record, we find no disclosure
of the generation of an operator services record which is then
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