Appeal No. 1998-2658 Page 8
Application No. 08/507,981
examiner (answer, page 6), it would have been obvious “to
combine the teachings of Orbach, IBM, and Itami to store the
first identification information in a user inaccessible area
of a recording medium as taught by Itami, and use the utility
program’s IEBCOPY to verify the identification information
stored on the medium before copying the selected program to
the recording medium because it would provide data security
and prevent software from being unlawfully copied.”
We find that in Orbach (col. 3, lines 32-63), after
displaying available programs (software) to the user
(functions 3 and 4) and allowing for program evaluation by the
user on computer 14 (function 5), the customer choice of the
program (software) to be purchased is accepted (function 6).
The customer may then be asked to choose a format for the
carrier (disk), (function 7). After this selection is
completed, a batch file is created (col. 4, lines 39-42),
which includes the name of the selected software package and
echoes the customer’s I.D. The purchased program is then
written to the carrier (function 8). The customer I.D.,
program identification, etc., are incorporated on the program
and a sales report is printed out (function 9).
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