Ex Parte Footer et al - Page 13

                 Appeal 2006-3117                                                                                        
                 Application 09/732,498                                                                                  
                 transaction and navigation data.  (Final Rejection 12.)  As discussed in the                            
                 preceding paragraph, we find no sufficient rationale in the record before that                          
                 would have led the ordinarily skilled artisan to combine such teaching of                               
                 Leermakers with Brown’s system to yield the separate servers as required by                             
                 claim 14. Therefore, the suggested combination is improper.  Consequently,                              
                 we find that the Examiner erred in rejecting claims 14 through 17 as being                              
                 unpatentable over the cited combination.  We reverse this rejection.                                    
                                                                                                                        
                                             CONCLUSION OF LAW                                                           
                        On the record before us, the Examiner has failed to establish that                               
                 Brown, Travaille, Leermakers and/or Gessel, Diwan and Hendricks are                                     
                 properly combined to render claims 1 through 17 unpatentable under                                      
                 35 U.S.C. § 103(a).                                                                                     



















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