Appeal Number: 2006-3365
Application Number: 10/329,921
standard suite of menu options. Thus, when populating the database, the DBMS is
inherently populating the forms, including sales contract forms, and vice versa. To
the extent the appellants are arguing that a person of ordinary skill in the art would
not know or be motivated to push a form view menu button that is standard within
such database suites, we must respond that database programmers have both the
motivation and technical capacity to perform much more difficult and targeted
views of the data when creating forms. To tie down any remaining question of
motivation, as the appellants acknowledged, supra., Raveis, Jr. at paragraphs 224-
229 directly teach creating forms to present contracts.
Therefore, we find the appellants’ argument to be unpersuasive. Accordingly
we sustain the examiner's rejection of claims 1 through 10 and 13 through 26 under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over Broerman and Raveis, Jr.
Claims 11 and 12 rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over Broerman,
Raveis, Jr. and the Virginia Regional Sales Contract.
The appellants argue
Broerman fails to teach automatically creating additional electronic
files in response to the modifying. The portion of Broerman cited as
teaching the automatic creation of additional files in response to the
modifying states "Generation of the electronic real estate documents
(e.g., electronic purchase contract 96 and electronic disclosure
document 98) shown in FIGS. 3, 5B and 5C may be accomplished by
storing a word processing template on a computer in the real estate
computer network 10. Information supplied by the buyer party 13 or
the seller party 12 may be merged with the word processing template
and stored as a document or the mutable terms may be stored
separately as a record in a database." (Broerman Col. 1, lines 44 - 52.)
Clearly, Broerman fails to teach or suggest automatically creating any
additional electronic file in response to the modifying. Building on
this lack of a teaching, the examiner argues that it would be obvious to
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