Appeal No. 2005-0823
Application No. 10/300,895 Page 24
We further find from Cogswell that not all agents are
thrilled about the prospect of IAR. One agent stated that "the
whole thing makes me nervous. They're still doing weekly
reporting now, but when will they start requiring daily
reporting? Daily reporting would take away our flexibility and
change our workload." Cogswell additionally quotes a travel
agency owner as stating that "he too was worried *ARC* would move
to daily reporting, but so far IAR is sticking to the weekly
reporting model.” Thus, from the disclosure of Cogswell that
some agents were apprehensive of the prospect of having daily
reporting implemented, we find that an artisan would have
considered daily reporting to have been obvious. The fact that
some agents were not thrilled about the prospect of daily
reporting does not detract from the fact that daily reporting was
known to them. Nor does the fact that daily reporting had not
yet been implemented, detract from the fact that daily reporting
was known to those in the travel reservation industry.
In addition, from the disclosure of Cogswell of enhancing
IAR, we find that an artisan would have been motivated to enhance
IAR by implementing the automation of IAR as taught by Cogswell.
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