Appeal No. 2004-2261 Page 8
Application No. 09/494,690
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The examiner's rejection
In short, the bases for the rejection is that Bush is silent as to how the supply
chain models are actually constructed and that it would have been obvious at the time
the invention was made to a person of ordinary skill in the art to construct Bush's supply
chain models in the manner suggested by Petchenkine's teachings of how to construct
a prepress workflow.
The appellant's argument
The appellant argues that even if there were motivation to combine the teachings
of Bush and Petchenkine, the resulting structure would not arrive at the subject matter
under appeal. Specifically, the appellant assert that the following limitations are not
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