Appeal 2007-1715 Page 3
Application 10/033,224
(b) entering a description of said corresponding article, said packing
material, and said container into a first data field of said rate determining
routine;
(c) transmitting a query from said routine to said database for a weight
associated with said corresponding article, said packing material, and said
container;
(d) returning said weight to said routine; and
(e) displaying the cost to ship the article, packing material and
container.
A. Issue
The Examiner finds that “Nicholls et al. anticipate all the substantive
elements of claims 3 and 5-17, except that, while Nicholls et al. do disclose
scanning the UPC barcode of an article being picked in a warehouse for shipping,
Nicholls et al. do not disclose using the scanned UPC barcode as a key value to
look up the weight of the item in a database, thereby obviating the need for a scale
to weigh the item.” Answer 4.
The Examiner finds that the difference between the claimed subject matter
and Nicholls is the subject matter of claim steps (c)-(e):
(c) transmitting a query from said routine to said database for a weight
associated with said corresponding article, said packing material, and said
container;
(d) returning said weight to said routine; and
(e) displaying the cost to ship the article, packing material and
container.
The Examiner relies on Godin to show requesting an item’s weight from a
computer database and using that weight to calculate shipping costs. Examiner
explains:
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