Appeal Number: 2006-3365
Application Number: 10/329,921
the Listing Transactions. Selling Agency values are manually entered,
or in the case of a proprietor sale they are the current office. Listing
Agents equal at least one agent but no more than five. If the
circumstances are a proprietor listing, then the associated listing is
default information. If the circumstances are a co-broker listing, at
least one listing agent with complete information must be provided.
There must be at least one Selling Agent but no more than five. If sold
by a proprietor agent, selecting from a list of agents defaults this
information. If a co-broker, must select at least one listing agent and
provide complete information including Contract Date, Contract Price
rounded to the nearest dollar and greater than zero, Listing and Selling
Share of commissions, Listing Type and Projected closing date.
[0111] The following fields are autopopulated from the MLS data:
MLS Status, Expiration Date, Property Type, Sub Division Name,
Sale ID, Created By, Created Date, Last Changed By, and Last
Changed Date. A listing agent can be listed only once on the Sale. A
selling agent can be listed only once on the sale. A seller and buyer
can each be listed only once on the sale. Sale transactions cannot be
deleted, but the status can be changed. When a sale transaction is
created, if it is linked to a Listing record, the status of the listing
record changes from Open to Under Contract. If the sale transaction is
canceled, the corresponding listings status is changed to open.
(Paragraphs 0109 through 111).
On its face, this teaches that sales contract fields are automatically populated
by MLS (Multiple Listing Service) data. Whether the sales contract is in the form
of a database or form is purely a matter of semantics and is a difference without a
distinction in the database arts, because forms are merely a characterization of
different ways of displaying the exact same data that is in the database, which
database management systems (DBMS) routinely provide as inherent functions for
ease of display. We note that most widely used database management systems,
such as Microsoft Access and Corel Paradox, provide this inherently within their
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