Appeal 2007-1715 Page 9
Application 10/033,224
shipping costs being one of the types of information the website displays. FF 5.
Since previous knowledge of the good’s weight is necessarily required before the
good’s shipping cost can be displayed on the website, Godin implicitly discloses
retrieving weight data for a good from the database prior to displaying the good’s
shipping cost on the website. This operation parallels claim steps (c)-(e).
Given the well-established connection between weight and the shipping cost,
one of ordinary skill in the art with Godin in hand would be led to modify the
Nicholls system application so as to display a package’s shipping cost based on the
weight inputted in the database. It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill
in the art to modify the Nicholls logistics system application so as to retrieve the
weight of a package, i.e., an article/packing contents/container, from the database,
return that weight to the application, and display the shipping cost per the Godin
method. It would also have been obvious to one with ordinary skill in the art to
query the Nicholls database for weight information because it is generally known
that weight information is used to calculate shipping costs.
Appellant argues that Godin discloses a product weight as part of the
shipping cost but not the packing material. Br. 17. Appellant also argues that
neither Nicholls nor Godin discloses a method of returning a weight from a weight
field of a database wherein the database has at least one data field for storing a set
of data relative to a corresponding article, packing material, and container, and
wherein said set of data comprises at least said weight field. Br. 17. Agreement
with these arguments requires one to read in to the claims a step of providing the
database with three separate data fields for the weights of each of the article,
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