Appeal No. 2001-1018
Application 09/211,688
examiner and indicated to be allowable if rewritten in
independent form.
Appellants’ invention is directed to a retail system and
method for allowing a customer to perform a retail transaction
and, if required, to additionally allow the customer to
perform a self-audit of his or her transaction. Independent
claims 1, 7, 13 and 18 are representative of the subject
matter on appeal and a copy of those claims may be found in
the Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Schwartz 3,878,365 Apr. 15,
1975
Van Solt 5,397,882 Mar. 14,
1995
Keating et al. (GB ‘575) 2 307 575 A May 28,
1997
Keating et al. (GB ‘395) 2 311 395 A
Sept. 24, 1997
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