Ex Parte Snow - Page 10

                Appeal Number: 2006-1773                                                                                                
                Application Number: 10/051,000                                                                                          

                                                            ANALYSIS                                                                    
                         Claims 17 and 18 rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over                                             
                                                  moonshop.com and Galaty.                                                              
                       Claim 17 is a method claim.  The actual enumerated steps are set forth in                                        
                elements                                                                                                                
                       2 - developing, producing, assembling, and offering for sale a documentation                                     
                package covering a lunar land property parcel.  As shown in the above facts,                                            
                moonshop.com has incorporated this step.                                                                                
                       8 - developing a plan of subdivision of the lunar globe into a decreasing size                                   
                sequence of regions, sections, blocks and parcels.  As shown in the above facts,                                        
                moonshop.com has incorporated this step.                                                                                
                       20 - establishing the use of map and photographic imagery, in paper and/or                                       
                digital electronic form, as part of the documentation package, that have been                                           
                determined to be publicly available from the U.S. Government.  As shown in the                                          
                above facts, moonshop.com has incorporated this step.                                                                   
                       23 - establishing a computer-useable database of all parcel locations, as                                        
                determined from lunar subdivision into the area sequence of regions, sections,                                          
                blocks, and parcels.  As shown in the above facts, moonshop.com has incorporated                                        
                this step.                                                                                                              
                       24 - establishing an inventory of individual lunar parcels, to be drawn from                                     
                the above parcel locations database.  As shown in the above facts, moonshop.com                                         
                has incorporated this step.                                                                                             




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