Appeal No. 97-1931
Application 08/364,826
(ii) means for automatically evaluating, on an item-by-
item basis, the price information obtained by said means for
obtaining, and for automatically selecting, on an item-by-item
basis, one of said at least two warehouses for the delivery of
each of said items based on a predetermined price-based
criterion, and
(iii) means, electronically linked to and responsive to
said means (ii), for automatically creating said order files for
ordering each of said items from the warehouse selected for
delivery of that item.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Dworkin 4,992,940 Feb. 12, 1991
Claims 1-25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness the examiner offers Dworkin taken alone.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the
examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answers for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on
appeal, the rejection advanced by the examiner and the evidence
of obviousness relied upon by the examiner as support for the
rejection. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken into
consideration, in reaching our decision, the appellants'
arguments set forth in the briefs along with the examiner's
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