Appeal No. 2001-0584
Application No. 09/034,067
positions of appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
It is the examiner’s position that Janssen discloses the
instant claimed subject matter for the reasons set forth at pages
4-9 of the answer, wherein the examiner identifies the portions
of the reference believed to teach each and every claim
limitation.
Appellants’ position is that while Janssen teaches a
computer-based on-line commerce system, Janssen searches through
a database which stores a plurality of pre-assembled packages and
selects a package best suited to a client’s list of preferred
attributes. According to appellants, this is in contrast to the
instant invention which assembles a package of related items.
Thus, it is appellants’ position that, unlike appellants’
invention, Janssen does not assemble a package of related items
but merely searches for an appropriate pre-assembled package
which is already part of an existing database.
Appellants also argue that the reference does not teach the
step of “finding servers” since the reference is directed to
searching a locally stored database in a kiosk and the entire
search takes place locally.
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