Appeal No. 2004-2261 Page 10
Application No. 09/494,690
preformatted file that serves as a model for other documents. A "template" is a file
containing styles, formatting, text, graphics, etc. that one uses to create a document. A
template is different from a document. For example, when a template is opened and
then modified, the Save command opens the Save As dialog box to enable the user to
save the modified template as a document thus maintaining the template unchanged,
whereas, when a document is opened and then modified, the Save command saves the
document thus deleting the unmodified document.
We agree with the examiner that in view of Bush's silence as to how his supply
chain models are actually constructed 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. Nevertheless, we also find ourselves in agreement with the
appellant that the combination of the teachings of Bush and Petchenkine does not arrive
at the subject matter under appeal since their combined teachings are not suggestive of
either (1) "a perspective template having at least one supply chain icon, the perspective
template providing a pre-populated framework to evaluate the manufacturing operation"
as recited in independent claims 4 and 10; or (2) "at least one perspective template
having a pre-arranged supply chain representation" as recited in independent claim 20.
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