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          Appeal No. 2003-0427                                                        
          Application No. 09/808,950                                                  


               Claim 15 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it              
          reads as follows:                                                           
                    15.  A cyber mall system for performing an agency                 
               selling of goods, comprising:                                          
                    means for receiving cyber shop definition                         
               information including goods information including attributes           
               of goods to be offered in a plurality of cyber shops in a              
               cyber shop mall, layout information concerning a display               
               layout of said goods for each of the cyber shops, and cyber            
               shop identifying information representing identification               
               information of the cyber shops in the cyber shop mall;                 
                    means for correlating said goods information, said                
               layout information and said cyber shop identifying                     
               information of said received cyber shop definition                     
               information, and holding the correlated information;                   
                    means for generating a web page, in response to an                
               access request for information concerning one of said cyber            
               shops, for displaying said goods on the basis of said goods            
               information and said layout information corresponding to               
               cyber shop identification information of said requested one            
               of said cyber shops; and                                               
                    means for outputting the generated web page for                   
               the offered goods.                                                     
               The references relied on by the examiner are:                          
          eShop Technology Overview, Internet address:                                
          <http://www.eshop.com/corp/technology.html>, dated Jan. 1, 1996.            
          eShop In The News, Recent Press Releases, Internet address:                 
          <http://www.eshop.com/corp/press.html>, dated Jan. 1, 1996, with            
          press releases dated Nov. 7, 1995, Dec. 7, 1995 and Jan. 23, 1996           
          discussed therein.                                                          
          eShop Technology Merchant Manual, February 21, 1996.                        


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