Appeal No. 97-1931
Application 08/364,826
means for calculating and displaying a total savings. The
limitations of claims 1 and 8 would have been obvious to the
artisan for reasons discussed above. The broad concept of
calculating and displaying total savings would also have been
obvious to the artisan because consumers are always interested in
knowing how much money they have saved by buying items from a
specific supplier.
With respect to claim 10, appellants argue that Dworkin
does not teach manual editing of an order before it is
transmitted to a warehouse. We agree with the examiner, however,
that it would have been obvious to the artisan that any
electronic order would be amenable to alteration before it is
electronically sent to the warehouse.
With respect to claim 11, appellants make the same
arguments that were made with respect to claim 1, and these
arguments are not persuasive for the same reasons discussed
above.
With respect to claim 12, appellants argue that claim 12
is intermediate in scope between claims 1 and 11. Since we have
determined that the invention of claims 1 and 11 would have been
obvious to the artisan, we reach the same conclusion with respect
to claim 12 for reasons discussed above.
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