Appeal No. 2001-0615
Application No. 08/741,459
connected to a remote information bureau computer and a document is further
developed by a plurality of remote entities. The examiner relies on Bly for a showing of
methods of collaborative editing of shared documents in a network environment and
also for a showing of presenting a document, or portions thereof, to different users
based on need, level of access, etc.
The examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to connect a plurality of
entities to Blumer and that it would have been obvious that one or more of such remote
entities may be servers connected to their own networks. Additionally, the examiner
finds that it would have been obvious to allow interactive editing of the document as it
was being developed, in view of Bly. Finally, the examiner contends that the skilled
artisan would have been led “to have multiple clients connected to multiple servers in
view of the Applicant’s admitted disclosure by Blumer and Davidson of using multiple
remote entities and their disclosure of connecting to the Internet via modems instead of
direct connections between the client and the server” [answer-page 6].
For their part, appellants argue that the instant claimed invention distinguishes
over the applied art by permitting the second party to further develop the document
while the first party originates and retains control of the document until execution. In
giving the example of two parties to a financial transaction, such as a customer and a
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