Appeal No. 95-4383
Application 08/110,456
appellants' specification admits that these features were used
in a the J90M system, which or has been marketed by the5
assignees of the application on appeal, the examiner does not
rely on these admissions, instead arguing that it would have
been obvious to modify Barnes-Slavin to use an identification
number with different suffixes to identify parcels in a group
of parcels and that also to send a group of parcels to the
same consignee. We do not agree with the examiner that it
would have been obvious to modify Barns-Slavin this manner
5The specification reads in pertinent part as follows
(at page 2, lines 18-27):
One such [carrier management] system is the J90M
system, marketed by the assignee of the present
application. The J90M includes a microprocessor,
keyboard and display in a single integrated console, a
separate scale, and a separate printer. The J90M has the
capability to weight [sic] parcels; input shipment data
and determine charges as described above; and prints
address labels and the like as well as manifest[s] for
parcels to be shipped by a selected carrier.
The J90M has a capability for handling "multi-
packages", that is groups of packages which are to be
delivered to a single consignee. The user enters a
parcel identification number and shipment data for the
first package in the group and the system automatically
appends a distinct suffix to the parcel identification
number for each package in the group and uses the
shipment data input for the first package to compute the
shipping charges for each package. The J90M however does
not have a capability for handling group discounts which
maybe [sic] provided by a carrier.
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