Appeal No. 1999-0890
Application 07/575,096
business form on the touch sensitive display as it affixed a
paper charge form to the surface of a touch sensitive screen, and
customer account data, merchant data and charges are printed on
the charge slip. He further states that Iggulden teaches that
pre-established forms can be displayed for data insertion by a
user. The Examiner then applies In re Venner7, quoting "it is
well settled that it is not "invention" to broadly provide a
mechanical or automatic means to replace manual activity which
has accomplished the same result" to obviate the replacement of
the charge slip on a digitizing pad with automatic means of
displaying the form on a touch sensitive pad.
As to section (g) of claim 17, the Examiner asserts that it
is a well known fact in computer science education and training,
as well as database design and usage, that the practice of
repeating information which never changes is unnecessary, and
this also applies to repeated information that is transmitted to
remote data bases. Based thereon the Examiner finds it obvious
to communicate the combined business form and signature
information to a storage medium for later retrieval.
7In re Venner and Bowser, 262 F.2d 91, 46 CCPA 754, 120 USPQ
192 (CCPA 1958).
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