Appeal No. 2000-1962
Application No. 08/697,421
Rejection under 37 CFR § 1.196(b)
We make the following new ground of rejection using our
authority under 37 CFR § 1.196(b). Claim 1 is rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Griffith (U.S. Patent No.
4,825,050, of record, and cited and applied by the Examiner in this
appeal). Griffith discloses, in particular at Figure 4A and the
accompanying description beginning at column 4, line 60, a method
of generating a secured endorsed transaction including receiving a
unique human identifier (individual identification 412) along with
data 404, 408, 409, and 410 corresponding to a transaction. The
characteristics of the unique identifier are provided at column 2,
lines 39-53 of Griffith. As further indicated in Figure 4A, a
unique code in the form of a transaction information record 403 is
generated using the unique human identifier 412 and the transaction
data 404, 408, 409, and 410.
Although the Griffith reference has been applied only against
independent claim 1, this is not to be taken as an indication of
the patentability of any of the other claims on appeal. In any
resumption of the prosecution of this application before the
Examiner, the Examiner should consider the applicability of
Griffith, and any other discovered prior art, to all of the pending
claims. We would also point out that, in addition to the unique
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