Appeal 2006-3369
Application 10/224,309
5. We find the documents described in Gullotta as “soft resources” to be
of much the same nature as the “policy materials” in the claims and
disclosed in the specification of the instant application. Considering
the breadth of the informational documents that are taught by Gullotta
as being supplied to the user based upon his role in the organization,
we find that that “policy materials for compliance certification” read
on the documents supplied the user in Gullotta.
Findings of Fact concerning Group 2: Claims 3-5, 18-20, and 33 to 35,
which are respectively dependent from independent claims 1 (method of
operation), 16 (apparatus), and 31 (article of manufacture):
1. Appellant argues that the Examiner erred in asserting that the
limitations in claim 3 (and parallel limitations in the other claims
of this Group) were anticipated by Gullotta. He asserts that the
following limitation is not found in Gullotta: “determining by the
computing environment, if the person has fully certified
compliance with the provided one or more policies [actually
‘policy materials’ are the words in the claim], scheduling by the
computing environment, one or more reminders for the person to
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